A fact from California Border Protection Stations appeared on Wikipedia's
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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
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The result was: promoted by
Yoninah (
talk) 00:13, 13 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Other problems: - The "protect it against invasion" is potentially misleading, since it's not clear it refers to an agricultural pest invasion. My first assumption was that these stations were about immigration, and many readers may assume the same.
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Overall: I think the image caption could be improved. It'd be better to specify the location than to give the year the photo was taken (no one really cares that it was 2013). No copyvios (Earwig just finds a quote); article is neutral and adequately cited. Once the wording is tweaked, this will be good to go. {{u|Sdkb}}talk 18:00, 18 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Wording in caption changed. I think the ambiguity of the hook is what makes it interesting, right? Though factual and inline cited some people may, like yourself, make more fantastical assumptions and be inspired to click the link to learn more. I'm not sure there's much of an interesting hook that could be created about noxious weed control. Nonetheless, I've begrudgingly proposed an ALT.
Chetsford (
talk) 21:15, 18 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Narutolovehinata5, I'm still not quite comfortable giving it a check due to the caption, but I think that's largely because I have much stricter views about the use of humor in DYK than most editors. I suspect many others wouldn't hesitate to approve it, so I'm waiting for someone to come along and do so. It should be pretty trivial since I've already reviewed the page itself, but I just don't want to be the one to put my name on a practice I don't agree with. {{u|Sdkb}}talk 16:31, 7 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Approving Alt1. --
evrik(
talk) 20:14, 10 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Hi, I came by to promote this, but where is the inline cite for the borders of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona?
Yoninah (
talk) 15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Evrik: Thank you! Please remember to clip the
Newspaper.com articles so readers can see them. Restoring your tick.
Yoninah (
talk) 00:12, 13 October 2020 (UTC)reply
regulation of interstate commerce
There should be some discussion of regulation of interstate commerce by a state—the Constitution frowns on that. --
Piledhigheranddeeper (
talk) 00:19, 23 October 2020 (UTC)reply
A fact from California Border Protection Stations appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 October 2020 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject California, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the
U.S. state of California on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CaliforniaWikipedia:WikiProject CaliforniaTemplate:WikiProject CaliforniaCalifornia articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Agriculture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
agriculture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AgricultureWikipedia:WikiProject AgricultureTemplate:WikiProject AgricultureAgriculture articles
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
Yoninah (
talk) 00:13, 13 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Other problems: - The "protect it against invasion" is potentially misleading, since it's not clear it refers to an agricultural pest invasion. My first assumption was that these stations were about immigration, and many readers may assume the same.
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Overall: I think the image caption could be improved. It'd be better to specify the location than to give the year the photo was taken (no one really cares that it was 2013). No copyvios (Earwig just finds a quote); article is neutral and adequately cited. Once the wording is tweaked, this will be good to go. {{u|Sdkb}}talk 18:00, 18 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Wording in caption changed. I think the ambiguity of the hook is what makes it interesting, right? Though factual and inline cited some people may, like yourself, make more fantastical assumptions and be inspired to click the link to learn more. I'm not sure there's much of an interesting hook that could be created about noxious weed control. Nonetheless, I've begrudgingly proposed an ALT.
Chetsford (
talk) 21:15, 18 September 2020 (UTC)reply
Narutolovehinata5, I'm still not quite comfortable giving it a check due to the caption, but I think that's largely because I have much stricter views about the use of humor in DYK than most editors. I suspect many others wouldn't hesitate to approve it, so I'm waiting for someone to come along and do so. It should be pretty trivial since I've already reviewed the page itself, but I just don't want to be the one to put my name on a practice I don't agree with. {{u|Sdkb}}talk 16:31, 7 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Approving Alt1. --
evrik(
talk) 20:14, 10 October 2020 (UTC)reply
Hi, I came by to promote this, but where is the inline cite for the borders of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona?
Yoninah (
talk) 15:23, 12 October 2020 (UTC)reply
@
Evrik: Thank you! Please remember to clip the
Newspaper.com articles so readers can see them. Restoring your tick.
Yoninah (
talk) 00:12, 13 October 2020 (UTC)reply
regulation of interstate commerce
There should be some discussion of regulation of interstate commerce by a state—the Constitution frowns on that. --
Piledhigheranddeeper (
talk) 00:19, 23 October 2020 (UTC)reply