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 JollyΩJanner 08:30, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
... that when the Tête Rousse Glacier near Mont Blanc collapsed in 1892, the water it released killed over 200 people?
ALT1: ...that the collapse of the Tête Rousse Glacier in the Alps killed over 200 people in 1892, and that thousands still live under its threat to this day?
Comment: Citations are in the French language, but key facts can easily be found and confirmed with Google translate.
5x expanded by Parkywiki (talk). Self-nominated at 16:53, 29 February 2016 (UTC).
Hi Parkywiki, nice article! However, the lead contains information that is not cited at all. Please either add inline citations to the lead or, ideally, provide the same information, with inline citations, in the body of the article and rewrite the lead to only summarize the rest of the article. I also recommend wikilinking "St Gervais" in the lead, even though it's already linked further below. The information in ALT1 ("thousands still live under its threat") is not supported by the sources cited where this informaton appears in the article, but it is supported by source cited elsewhere in the article, so you may simply repeat the appropriate citation (e.g., the BBC article) after "to protect the 3,000 inhabitants in the valley below." — Kpalion(talk) 13:23, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Good advice Kpalion, thanks. I've restructured the article, repeating the reference I had used later on, and from which quite a lot of the uncited lead facts came from. I think this makes the article better cited and have added a couple of mountaineering guidebook refs. Other suggestions have also been taken on board and are fixed now, too.Parkywiki (talk) 15:34, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
Hi Parkywiki, nice article! However, the lead contains information that is not cited at all. Please either add inline citations to the lead or, ideally, provide the same information, with inline citations, in the body of the article and rewrite the lead to only summarize the rest of the article. I also recommend wikilinking "St Gervais" in the lead, even though it's already linked further below. The information in ALT1 ("thousands still live under its threat") is not supported by the sources cited where this informaton appears in the article, but it is supported by source cited elsewhere in the article, so you may simply repeat the appropriate citation (e.g., the BBC article) after "to protect the 3,000 inhabitants in the valley below." — Kpalion(talk) 13:23, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
