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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 18:48, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

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Wrinkle the duck

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Created by RoySmith (talk). Self-nominated at 19:26, 12 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Wrinkle the duck; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough

Policy compliance:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article created on 12 July, and meets the length requirement. All sources are, as far as I can tell, reliable for the material they are cited for. Earwig reveals no copyvio, and I didn't spot any instances of unacceptably WP:Close paraphrasing. There are no obvious neutrality issues. Both hooks are properly cited and interesting; I prefer ALT0 with the mention of custom shoes. QPQ has been done. Some comments out the content:

  • Wrinkle ran her first marathon in 2021, at approximately two months of age. – that can't be right, Wrinkle would have been three (almost four) months old already on 1 January 2021. It also fails verification.
  • content creator and circus jugglers – surely either both singular or both plural?

Ping RoySmith. TompaDompa (talk) 19:30, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

  • I dropped the bit about her age. I had calculated that myself, and I guess I did the math wrong. It's not essential anyway, so better to just drop it. The plural/singular thing was really awkward wording on my part. I had a source saying one of them was a content creator and both were jugglers and tried to express that. Poorly. I cleaned that up.
  • Yeah, I like ALT0 better myself. I've struck ALT1. RoySmith (talk) 22:04, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
@RoySmith and TompaDompa: Cute article but source 9 states, Upon further investigation into duck world records, Wrinkle might be the first to waddle 1,000m and do it at such a blazing speed of 3.31 km/h. The record is still under ratification, according to the non-existent World Duck Athletics panel. And source seven does not mention a world record just a medal. So is the world record a quirky pass? Bruxton (talk) 18:07, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
ALT0a: ... that Wrinkle Five Star set a 1km world record (unratified) of 18:08 running in custom shoes? RoySmith (talk) 18:12, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
I'm fine both with including the "(unratified)" and excluding it. It's a pretty clear attempt at humor by the source and I think the silliness carries over appropriately either way. TompaDompa (talk) 18:22, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
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