Template:Did you know nominations/Whaling in the Faroe Islands

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 08:56, 20 November 2021 (UTC)

Whaling in the Faroe Islands

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... that the practice of whaling in the Faroe Islands dates back to the early days of Norse settlement during the Viking Era? [1]
- ALT1: ... that traditional whale hunters in the Faroes Islands used whale skins to make fishing lines and ropes, whale stomachs to fashion fishing floats and other body parts to make items such as shoes? [2]
- ALT2: ... that whale hunts in the Faroe Islands were once celebrated with a traditional cultural dance known as the "grindadansur"? [3]

Created/expanded by Iskandar323 (talk). Self-nominated at 13:30, 9 November 2021 (UTC).

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough:
Other problems:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - Earwig is picking up some similarities that I'm not quite comfortable with, but they should be easily resolved with some paraphrasing. See here.

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

QPQ: - Not done
Overall: Just need the plagiarism issue resolved and a QPQ added. Oh, also, for ALT0 – shouldn't the link use in rather than on, since the whaling takes place in the place but (I assume) not on the islands themselves? ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 04:23, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Comment I don't really see the plagiarism. The tool itself self "violation unlikely" and many of the similarities are either organisation names, titles or string of words that might reasonably be expected to organically emerge. As far as I am aware, the Animal Fund has never been used as a source (I've certainly never seen it), and I think a slightly more likely explanation is that the Animal Fund has, at some point in the past, used some material from Wikipedia. Bear in mind this web page is not an article or feature, but a simple web page (with bullet points) plugging an advocacy organisation. It makes no claim to be original prose from or authored by the Animal Fund. Its source is entirely unknown. The vast majority of the Wikipedia article is taken from published books, journals, other documents and, where absolutely necessary, some Faroese and Danish language websites, but certainly not from English language advocacy websites, except for some very limited, news-related content from reliable sources. Iskandar323 (talk) 08:21, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
Question When I follow the QPQ link, I see that it says if you have fewer than 5 DYK credits (I have none) then you are exempt from the QPQ - is this still the policy? I'm happy to help in future, but at the moment, I frankly barely understand all of these DYK templates etc. enough in order to help. I think I would need to see how the whole process works at least once before I can properly get involved and lend a hand. It is both my first GA and DYK nomination. Iskandar323 (talk) 08:21, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

Approved per the responses above! Good job, Iskandar323. ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 17:53, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

ALT0 to T:DYK/P1