Template:Did you know nominations/Sawmill Fire (2017)

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:13, 19 September 2021 (UTC)

Sawmill Fire (2017)

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• ... that the Sawmill Fire of 2017, which burned more than 45,000 acres, was started at a gender reveal party? Source: Border Patrol Agent’s Gender-Reveal Party Sparked Arizona Fire, Lawyer Says

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Rex Julius

Improved to Good Article status by Vami IV (talk). Self-nominated at 23:34, 4 September 2021 (UTC).

• Y New enough.
• Y Long enough.
• Y Sourced enough.
• Y Neutral enough (although some of the coverage is a bit spectacular).
• Y New enough.
• Y No copyvio detected.
• Y Pictures are good and clear and illustrative and free-as-in-freedom.
• ? Some minor copy issues:

• I dunno what MOS says about always capitalizing "Federal" (not a big deal to me either way).
• "The video brought the fire back into the public conscious, resulting in both Dickey and the concept of gender reveal parties." - weird dangling sentence fragment.

• Oops! I've fixed that now. –♠Vami_IV†♠ 00:45, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

• "was the first wildfire known to be ignited by a gender reveal party,[42] but was not the last, as it was succeeded in 2020 by the El Dorado Fire in California, which ignited more public outrage." Either this is accidental, in which case it should be fixed, or deliberate, in which case it's pretty clever, (but still a little potentially confusing).

• Replaced the second "ignited" with "sparked". –♠Vami_IV†♠ 00:45, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

• ? I hate to niggle about wording in the hook on an otherwise acceptable nomination, but "started by a gender reveal party" seems somewhat incorrect to me (since this implies that setting vegetation on fire was a part of the schedule for the party, or somehow instrumental to it taking place). It feels like it would be more accurate to say it was "started by an accident at a gender reveal party", or even "started at a gender reveal party".

• Changed to "at a". –♠Vami_IV†♠ 00:45, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

• Apart from these couple issues, I think this passes. jp×g 00:36, 5 September 2021 (UTC)

• jp×g, are you satisfied with the edits made? Please return when you can to continue your review. Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 00:44, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

The first extremely online wildfire, I suppose. This looks good to go. jp×g 01:14, 17 September 2021 (UTC)

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