Template:Did you know nominations/Climate change in Kenya

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 02:46, 24 January 2021 (UTC)

Climate change in Kenya

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... that malaria is expected to become more prevalent due to the impacts of climate change in Kenya? Source: The risk of malaria, other vector borne diseases and water borne diseases are predicted to rise due to changing climate conditions and its environmental impacts. Ref: https://apps.who.int/iris/rest/bitstreams/1031236/retrieve
- ALT1:... that climate change in Kenya is threatening tea harvests? Source: In the recent times, the tea sector has shown unstable trends with climate driven stresses. Ref: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2020.00339/full
- ALT2:... climate change in Kenya has caused previously glacier-fed rivers to stop flowing in some seasons? Source: Severe glacial loss on Mount Kenya is further escalating the scarcity of water resources and has led to changes in flow of perennial rivers dependent on the glacial to seasonal flows, consequently, aggravating conflict over water resources. Ref: https://www.climatelinks.org/sites/default/files/asset/document/2018_USAID-ATLAS-Project_Climate-Risk-Profile-Kenya.pdf

Comment: This article was created/expanded (previously it was just a redirect which had been placed in 2018) as part of the Wiki4Climate edit-a-thon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Online_edit-a-thon_on_climate_change_-_November_2020 . Most of the work has been done by a novice editor, Gbadegesin Muhammed.

Created/expanded by Gbadegesin Muhammed (talk) and Sadads (talk). Nominated by EMsmile (talk) at 16:40, 30 November 2020 (UTC).

@EMsmile: This interesting article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts for ALT0 and ALT1 are cited inline, and the article is neutral. Unfortunately the article contains significant amounts of close paraphrasing. I rewrote one sentence that showed up with the Earwig tool, but then found other examples. The paragraph on tea for example includes "Sustainability of the industry is thus crucial to the country’s socio-economic well-being and development", which is lifted straight from the source. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 11:59, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Hi @Cwmhiraeth: thank you for pointing that out. I wasn't aware of that - most of the work was done by Gbadegesin Muhammed but also some others during the Wiki4Climate edit-a-thon. I should have checked with the tool myself. We'll work on that issue. Is there a time frame by which we have to have improved it by? EMsmile (talk) 16:26, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Cwmhiraeth, I noticed the close paraphrasing myself when discussing the nomination of this article with EMsmile. I've done some copyediting without looking at the sources (apologies for not managing to do it before the review), for grammar and flow, and currently earwig isn't pulling up too much. CMD (talk) 16:54, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

Bah I've found some egregious examples that earwig isn't picking up. This will require a thorough check. CMD (talk) 17:04, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

@EMsmile: Thank you both. There is no particular time frame for sorting it out, but ideally, each paragraph should be compared with its source. That's how I noticed the paragraph about tea. New editors don't always understand about copyright. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:23, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

@EMsmile and Cwmhiraeth: Gone through the article. Wouldn't say no to some double-checking/spot-checking if possible, but I think I've at least got most of it. CMD (talk) 16:35, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

@Chipmunkdavis:, thanks so much. I know that @PlanetCare: is also tackling this article these days. We discussed (in the Wiki4Climate Slack channel) the idea of using more of the standard structure that was proposed by WikiProject Climate Change. So hopefully it will continue to improve over the course of the week. EMsmile (talk) 06:01, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Reviewer needed to see whether the previous issues have been addressed and the article as revised meets the DYK criteria. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:48, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
I checked with earwig and it appears that the paraphasing has been dealt with. --evrik ^(talk) 21:39, 23 January 2021 (UTC)