Template:Did you know nominations/Permafrost

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet talk 10:12, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Permafrost

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• ... that there are around 20,000 sites containing toxic materials that are frozen in the permafrost, many of which are expected to start thawing and releasing their pollutants in the near future? Source: . (From "Release of toxic pollutants" section of the article.)
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Improved to Good Article status by InformationToKnowledge (talk). Self-nominated at 19:01, 28 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Permafrost; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The source for the hook states that there are between 13,000 and 20,000 sites containing toxic materials. Perhaps change the hook to state "up to 20,000" rather than "around 20,000". Otherwise the length is good, the promotion to good article was recent enough, the article is sourced, and the hook is interesting. No QPQ requirement because this is only your second DYK nomination. Well done. Nathan121212 (talk) 22:03, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you! And as for your comment, this figure "between 13,000 and 20,000" refers to only one type of a toxic site, and there are two. The source's exact wording is

Here we identify about 4500 industrial sites where potentially hazardous substances are actively handled or stored in the permafrost-dominated regions of the Arctic. Furthermore, we estimate that between 13,000 and 20,000 contaminated sites are related to these industrial sites.

So, the wording I chose - "there are around 20,000 sites containing toxic materials" - was actually meant to deal with this uncertainty by adequately describing both the 4,500 industrial sites, and the 13,000 to 20,000 contaminated ones. If you add the two together, you get a minimum of ~17,500 and a maximum of 24,500. This is why I think "around 20,000 sites" would be the most appropriate descriptor. InformationToKnowledge (talk) 12:42, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

In that case, all good. Approved. Nathan121212 (talk) 17:09, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

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