Template:Did you know nominations/Long-tailed marmot

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The result was: promoted by G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 16:48, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Long-tailed marmot

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... that the long-tailed marmot spends seven or eight months of each year in hibernation?

Reviewed: Canadian Journey Series

5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self nominated at 19:56, 22 October 2014 (UTC).

This has been developed from 2087 to 5056 bytes. I like the article but is that enough expansion to meet the fivefold rule? I do not know what else should be said about this 9 kg marmot but it seems that he needs to have reached 10,000 bytes to be eligible for DYK. Or have I done these sums wrongly? (Highly likely.) Whiteghost.ink (talk) 04:26, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Your sums are mathematically sound, Whiteghost.ink, but you've counted the wrong thing. :) You're correct that the raw size of the article only increased from ~2000 to ~5000 bytes, but for DYK we measure the size of the article's readable prose (i.e. excluding templates, references, infoboxes, etc.), which was increased from 274 characters to over 3000 characters. So the length is totally fine. 97198 (talk) 05:21, 25 October 2014 (UTC)

Expanded on 21 October, well referenced, no copyvio. Article says "from about September to April or May" rather than "seven or eight months" but that's okay IMO. Hook fact is sourced to a subscription-only article so AGF. 97198 (talk) 05:21, 25 October 2014 (UTC)