Template:Did you know nominations/Spiral case
- 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 SL93 (talk) 20:11, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
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Spiral case
- ... that thousands of Greenlandic women and girls had intrauterine devices placed without their consent during the 1960s and 1970s?
- ALT1: ... that politician Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam describes an involuntary birth control program for women and girls held in Greenland during the 1960s and 1970s as genocide?
- ALT2: ... that the Danish and Greenlandic governments have committed to investigating an involuntary birth control program that one politician has called genocide?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Leutard of Vertus
- Comment: alternatives welcome, as always - sad, terrifying, upsetting, in a way words alone cannot describe.
Created by Urve (talk). Self-nominated at 02:27, 6 November 2022 (UTC).
Long enough at 2,638 characters (380 words). Started 6 November, so fine. Sources include BBC, Le Monde, Sermitsiaq and Jyllands-Posten, which are good enough for an ongoing case. Prose are good to fine. The hook is more than attention grabbing, as this is a shocking case. Earwig throws up 11.5%, although that maybe because two of the major sources are in Kalaallisut or Danish; I'm going to accept good faith here. Only quibble is that in the "Investigations and reaction" section, so the government instituted a program to control and genocide the population should contain the original quote in parenthesis. Ceoil (talk) 23:14, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for the review. I added a quote from the article, but I am unsure if this is a direct quote from Høegh-Dam; Sermitsiaq (in my experience) rarely uses quotation marks, even for direct quotes. I put it in the reference. As for Earwig, I think the percentage is from the titles of articles. Urve (talk) 02:54, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
- Earwig at 11.5% is very low, the worry is that the tool might not pick up on similarity to other language sources. But as said, will AGF as the nominator seems credible wrt use of eng sourcces. Having read the English sources, ALT0 is my preference. Would like to see this as the lead hook when scheduled. Kudos to Urv. Ceoil (talk) 03:18, 7 November 2022 (UTC)