Template:Did you know nominations/Disease X
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:26, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
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Disease X
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SEM of the SARS-CoV-2 virus
- ... that the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic is rapidly becoming the first true pandemic challenge that fits the World Health Organization's Disease X category"? Bloomberg, New York Times
- ALT1 ... that experts on the World Health Organization's emergency committee believe that the SARS-CoV-2 virus (pictured) has created the first Disease X?
- Reviewed: Robert Hunter
5x expanded by Britishfinance (talk). Self-nominated at 00:25, 21 March 2020 (UTC).
Article is new enough and long enough; before March 18 there were 1254 characters of readable prose, so an expansion would need to be at least 6270 characters; the page currently has 7797 characters of readable prose. No reason for concern about policy violations; the article is neutrally written and very well-sourced. Both the hook and ALT1 are supported by the sources given, are under 200 characters, are neutral, and are interesting. I think that the first suggested hook will be noticeably out of date by the time this hits the front page, so I suggest ALT1, but there's a note on that one too: there's a comma mistake in ALT1, which is one sentence spliced by a comma that should just be removed. The picture is included in the article, and the image is licensed under Attribution 2.0 Generic. QPQ was done. Great article! I am a first-time DYK reviewer, so per the intro of the reviewing guide, I invite a second opinion for my review. - Astrophobe (talk) 16:48, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks Astrophobe, and I agree that ALT1 is probably better now, and have taken out the comma. Britishfinance (talk) 16:59, 24 March 2020 (UTC)
