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A fact from Acherontemys appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 January 2024 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys was named for a "river of the fabled lower world"?
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
Bruxtontalk 15:32, 18 January 2024 (UTC)reply
... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys heckmani(pictured) was found in a Washington state coal mine? Source: Hay 1899 page 23 paragraph 2
ALT1: ... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys(pictured) was named for a "river of the fabled lower world"? Source: Hay 1899, page 23 "Generic characters last sentence of section"
ALT2: ... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys(pictured) is encased in rock that was deemed too "refractory" to work? Source: Hay 1899 page 23 paragraph 3 discussing the plastron
No detected copyright violations from Copyvio, images should be fine including the one in DYK (whether the image will be chosen for DYK is up to the promoter). Checked all 3 hooks in the original source that erected the genus, ALT0 or ALT1 probably work best while ALT2 might not be as interesting, though in ALT1, "for" should be replaced with "after" because the sentence is confusing otherwise.
PrimalMustelid (
talk) 17:26, 17 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Thank you for the article
Kevmin. Just a note to say nearly all sources are offline so it would be best to provide snippets of the source text in the nomination after each hook. The reviewers from
PrimalMustelid, me and all the others on the way to the main page, have to AGF and cannot perform our hook citation checks.
Bruxton (
talk) 15:32, 18 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Bruxton Actually all the sources are online, though Wikilibrary, googlebooks, etc.--
Kevmin§ 17:24, 18 January 2024 (UTC)reply
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A fact from Acherontemys appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 January 2024 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys was named for a "river of the fabled lower world"?
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
Bruxtontalk 15:32, 18 January 2024 (UTC)reply
... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys heckmani(pictured) was found in a Washington state coal mine? Source: Hay 1899 page 23 paragraph 2
ALT1: ... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys(pictured) was named for a "river of the fabled lower world"? Source: Hay 1899, page 23 "Generic characters last sentence of section"
ALT2: ... that the fossil turtle Acherontemys(pictured) is encased in rock that was deemed too "refractory" to work? Source: Hay 1899 page 23 paragraph 3 discussing the plastron
No detected copyright violations from Copyvio, images should be fine including the one in DYK (whether the image will be chosen for DYK is up to the promoter). Checked all 3 hooks in the original source that erected the genus, ALT0 or ALT1 probably work best while ALT2 might not be as interesting, though in ALT1, "for" should be replaced with "after" because the sentence is confusing otherwise.
PrimalMustelid (
talk) 17:26, 17 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Thank you for the article
Kevmin. Just a note to say nearly all sources are offline so it would be best to provide snippets of the source text in the nomination after each hook. The reviewers from
PrimalMustelid, me and all the others on the way to the main page, have to AGF and cannot perform our hook citation checks.
Bruxton (
talk) 15:32, 18 January 2024 (UTC)reply
Bruxton Actually all the sources are online, though Wikilibrary, googlebooks, etc.--
Kevmin§ 17:24, 18 January 2024 (UTC)reply