Talk:Poison Book Project
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 | A fact from Poison Book Project appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
[edit]- 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 Cielquiparle (talk) 10:44, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
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- ... that the Poison Book Project has identified more than 100 books that contain arsenic? Source: "Thanks to the work of researchers from more than a dozen other institutions and private collections, 101 arsenical books have so far been identified," from: Sloan, Marisa (19 September 2022). "Victorian-era Books Bound in Emerald Green Are Laced With Arsenic". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 08:58, 24 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Poison Book Project; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
- Reviewing... new enough, long enough, hook in article and interesting. That an old green book might be hazardous to touch is interesting. Will complete review soon. ALTs welcome. Whispyhistory (talk) 09:14, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
... Copyvio <10%, QPQ provided. Hook followed by citation to reference containing hook fact. Article has enough sources and was a pleasure to read. Thank you. Whispyhistory (talk) 05:58, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
Photo requested
[edit]The project wiki has pictures of books in the toxic colors. They don't state a licence so they may not allow copying them. However, perhaps Commons already has images of some of these books. -- Error (talk) 16:07, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
- I found one. -- Error (talk) 16:21, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
- Good work! - Dumelow (talk) 06:36, 6 April 2023 (UTC)