Talk:July 2023 Western Kentucky floods

A fact from July 2023 Western Kentucky floods appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 August 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during the 2023 Western Kentucky floods, 11.28 inches (287 mm) of rain fell in Graves County, which set a new preliminary rainfall record for the state?

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The result was: promoted by Lightburst (talk) 03:37, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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[[File:|140px|Flash flooding in Mayfield, Kentucky ]]

Flash flooding in Mayfield, Kentucky

... that during the 2023 Western Kentucky floods, 11.28 inches (28.7 cm) of rain fell in Graves County, Kentucky, which set a new preliminary rainfall record in there? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/us/kentucky-flooding.html
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Carex pauciflora

Created by Tails Wx (talk). Self-nominated at 01:24, 26 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/July 2023 Western Kentucky floods; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article new enough, long enough, and passes earwig. NYT source is paywalled, but other citations in the article support otherwise. No close paraphrasing was found, and the hook is interesting, cited inline, and verified. QPQ done. Suggestion, maybe replace the second mention of Kentucky and replace with state or set a new rainfall record there to avoid repetition. Nom good to go otherwise. Pseud 14 (talk) 15:19, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Pseud 14: thanks for the suggestion! Have tweaked the hook. :) Tails Wx 16:57, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

~~Record in KY is preliminary until vetted by the NCEI, which is unlikely until 2024. As such I added preliminary.72.68.134.254 (talk) 22:41, 31 July 2023 (UTC)~~ (Striking comment from blocked SOCK. The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 15:32, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies for deleting the photo here...

... but it turned out to be a copyvio. The National Weather Service did indeed have it on their site, but apparently on a courtesy basis, not as government work. See commons:Commons:Deletion requests/File:2023 Historic Flooding in Mayfield, Kentucky.png and the RfC that it links. - Jmabel | Talk 07:29, 14 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]