Template:Did you know nominations/Wildlife of South Africa

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) 02:57, 5 September 2019 (UTC)

Wildlife of South Africa, Long-tailed forest shrew, Duthie's golden mole

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• Wildlife of South Africa
• Long-tailed forest shrew
• Duthie's golden mole

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• ... that endemic mammals among the wildlife of South Africa include Duthie's golden mole and the long-tailed forest shrew?
  • ALT1:... that Duthie's golden mole and the long-tailed forest shrew are among the wildlife of South Africa that are both endemic and "vulnerable"?

• Reviewed: Willard H. George
• Comment: Also reviewed the two article hook Template:Did you know nominations/Being Impossible & Patricia Ortega

5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 06:33, 26 July 2019 (UTC).

• The five-fold expansion is based of a starting size of 2090 characters (adjusted for some material copied from other articles) and a finishing size of 10,650 characters. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:19, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

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: I prefer ALT1 as a bit more interesting. But no issues either hook. User:Cwmhiraeth is an experienced DYK contributor and knows the game. I appreciate his valuable contributions. P 1 9 9  ✉ 16:46, 14 August 2019 (UTC)