Talk:California Border Protection Stations

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:

Did you know... that California maintains 16 checkpoints along its borders with Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona to help protect against an invasion by exotic lifeforms?

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 00:13, 13 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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A California Border Protection Station on Interstate 15

... ~~that California maintains 16 checkpoints (pictured) along its borders with Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona to help protect it against an invasion?~~

ALT-1: ... that California maintains 16 checkpoints (pictured) along its borders with Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona to help protect it against an invasion by exotic lifeforms?
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Revolt of the Admirals

Created by Chetsford (talk). Self-nominated at 05:15, 18 September 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
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.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

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]

@Sdkb and Chetsford: Any updates on this? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 13:53, 7 October 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]
A new editor is requested to give this a second look. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 02:35, 8 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]

@Yoninah: look here. --evrik ^(talk) 22:47, 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]