Template:Did you know nominations/Fountain Fire
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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 03:48, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
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Fountain Fire
- ... that at the time, the Fountain Fire was the third most destructive wildfire in recorded California history? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112345288/the-fountain-fire/
- ALT1: ... that at the time, the Fountain Fire had become the most expensive fire to contain in recorded California history? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112738220/from-hotels-to-honey-it-all-adds-up/ , https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112328184/drought-made-summers-fires-fiercer/ , https://www.newspapers.com/clip/112351650/shasta-battling-back-from-blaze-page-1/
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Improved to Good Article status by Penitentes (talk). Nominated by Onegreatjoke (talk) at 21:34, 27 January 2023 (UTC). Note: As of October 2022, all changes made to promoted hooks will be logged by a bot. The log for this nomination can be found at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Fountain Fire, so please watch a successfully closed nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.
Both hooks check out, and are interesting. The article was improved to GA four days ago, and has the correct inline citations. The article is neutral and I do not find copyright violations. The QPQ is done. Bruxton (talk) 22:36, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
- @Penitentes, Onegreatjoke, and Bruxton: I'm not clearly seeing how the "third most destructive wildfire" claim is backed up by the sources in the article body, none of which seem to say it's in third place (even though the Newspapers.com clipping above does)...? Cielquiparle (talk) 16:07, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
- @Cielquiparle: Hey! I might be misunderstanding, but I think the claim is sufficiently supported—in addition to the clipping (which is included as a reference for that particular sentence in the article), the Cal Fire archived list of most destructive wildfires lists the Fountain Fire as #4, with one of the three above it being a later 1999 fire. I moved those two references to be mid-sentence, directly after the 'then the third-most destructive claim', with the other Cal Fire reference supporting the 'no longer in the top 20' claim. If you think it's not clear enough that the fire was #3 in 1992 but not today, let me know! - Penitentes (talk) 16:47, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
- @Penitentes: Thanks for clarifying. Cielquiparle (talk) 14:51, 27 February 2023 (UTC)