Template:Did you know nominations/Mandakini River

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) 02:38, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Mandakini River

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• ... that hundreds of people died during the flooding of the Mandakini River?
• ALT1: ... that thousands of people died during the flooding of the Mandakini River?

Created/expanded by FiertlA (talk). Self-nominated at 10:44, 16 November 2020 (UTC).

• There is currently no article at the target page (Mandakani River). The nomination can continue if an article can be created that meets the requirements, but this does not happen then this must be closed. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 08:54, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

• Nominator fixed the typo in the hook. (The correct article name already appeared everywhere else in the nomination template.) MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 22:56, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

It appears that while a 5x expansion was indeed accomplished, it occurred on the 2nd of November; however the article was nominated on 17 November, which is beyond the seven day requirement. The nominator is new to Wikipedia and DYK so a one-time IAR exemption could be considered provided no other issues exist, so I'll leave a message at WT:DYK regarding the date requirement. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 00:19, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

• This article has been five-fold expanded by a student editor and is new enough (IAR) and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline and I have added ALT1 to provide context, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. No QPQ is needed here. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:37, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

• Hi, I came by to promote this, but the hook does not accurately reflect the article, which says more than 1,000 people died as a result. I also feel the hook could be made a lot stronger with more detail. I could suggest something if you'd like. Yoninah (talk) 12:53, 22 November 2020 (UTC)

• Hello, thank you very much! I would definitely love to hear suggestions and really appreciate the help! Please go ahead and do as you please and thank you again. Stay well. FiertlA (talk) 05:50, 23 November 2020 (UTC)FiertlA

• ALT2: ... that 25 million tourists—2 ½ times the population of the entire state—visited the Mandakini River in Uttarakhand in 2011? Source: "Though, the state population is about 10 million, over 25 million tourists visited here in 2011 despite the fact that the state remains under frequent natural hazards in the forms of landslides, earthquakes and flash floods mainly during monsoon." ([https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212420914000235 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction)
• I also added a "citation needed" tag to the first sentence under "Role in the establishment of surrounding villages". Yoninah (talk) 15:50, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

• Restoring thread. FiertlA please do not edit or write over previous posts; it makes it impossible to follow the discussion. I added your new hook as ALT1, but struck it because it is not correct: the article only talks about "over 1,000". I also struck the first hook. The ALT2 hook is already present in the thread, so there's no reason to repeat it at the top. If you have any more alts to add, please do so at the bottom of this thread. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 14:01, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

• The nominator has not been online for a week now, and based on his last comment, I wonder if he wants us to go ahead and approve a new hook. Pinging original reviewer Cwmhiraeth to review my hook suggestion. Yoninah (talk) 17:47, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

• Approving ALT2. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 20:05, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

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