Template:Did you know nominations/Oligodon churahensis
- 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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 10:30, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
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Oligodon churahensis
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Female Oligodon churahensis
- ... that the Churah Valley kukri snake was discovered because of an Instagram post? Source: https://evolsyst.pensoft.net/article/72564/
Created by AryKun (talk). Self-nominated at 08:59, 8 January 2022 (UTC).
Nominated for DYK a few minutes after creation, and is just over 2200 bytes, satisfying date and length criteria. There are no copyvio or close paraphrasing concerns. QPQ completed. Hook is suitably short and cited. As a minor nitpick, however, I think stating that the snake was discovered because of the Instagram post is not quite accurate, as it was discovered when the photo was taken (or earlier, by someone else); perhaps the hook can state that the snake was researched/described as a result of the post? The infobox photo might be interesting to include for the DYK (I've added the photo above); it is suitable at the scale needed for DYK, and is licenced as CC-BY-4.0. Mindmatrix 19:31, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
- Proposing ALT1: ... that the Churah Valley kukri snake was described because of an Instagram post? and ALT2: ... that the Churah Valley kukri snake was discovered when a photo of it was posted on Instagram?
- Passing comment. Alt2 says "discovered" which is the word objected to in the main hook?? Alt1 is not as good. This is not the discovery of a snake. The article is about a new species which was discovered (and later described) by two biologists. Victuallers (talk) 21:56, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
- @Victuallers: (or anybody else) do you have any suggestions for a better hook, or better phrasing for the above hooks? Is my original nitpick overly-pedantic? Mindmatrix 21:31, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
- I like the original hook - you could add the word species in there, (but we don't include it in the article's title and it is linked to its latin bi-name). I think you misunderstood and actually the species was discovered, if others share the same misunderstanding then they can click on the hook and find out about this new species. Victuallers (talk) 10:58, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
- @Victuallers: (or anybody else) do you have any suggestions for a better hook, or better phrasing for the above hooks? Is my original nitpick overly-pedantic? Mindmatrix 21:31, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
- Passing comment. Alt2 says "discovered" which is the word objected to in the main hook?? Alt1 is not as good. This is not the discovery of a snake. The article is about a new species which was discovered (and later described) by two biologists. Victuallers (talk) 21:56, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
