Template:Did you know nominations/Disappearance of Leah Roberts

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 Allen3 ^talk 12:43, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

Disappearance of Leah Roberts

(

• Back to T:TDYK
• Article history

)

• ... that although police investigating the disappearance of Leah Roberts found her wrecked Jeep Cherokee 15 years ago today, it was another six years before they looked under the hood and found the starter relay wire had been cut?

• ALT1:... that before Leah Roberts disappeared, she drove from Durham, North Carolina, to the Northern Cascades in Washington, where her wrecked car was found 15 years ago today?
• Reviewed: Adhyatma Upanishad
• Comment: Another real-life unsolved mystery. Both hooks are meant to be run on March 18, as noted the 15-year anniversary of when her wrecked and abandoned car was found. If desired I can adjust or create hooks to run on March 9 (anniversary of the day she left Durham) or March 13 (last seen in the Bellingham area that day), although the 18th is the day this went from a standard missing-persons case into a real headscratcher. (I also have a little bit more work to do, although if someone wants to review it now so as to make sure it's in the pipeline for the desired date, let me know so I can make sure it's up to snuff. More hooks could also be possible.

Created by Daniel Case (talk). Self nominated at 20:25, 23 February 2015 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, neutrally written, adequately referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. QPQ done. I like the original hook, but it is 225 characters long. Here is a suggestion for shortening it:
• ALT2: ... that though police investigating the disappearance of Leah Roberts found her wrecked Jeep in 2000, they only looked under the hood and saw the starter relay wire had been cut in 2006? Yoninah (talk) 23:41, 7 March 2015 (UTC)

@Yoninah: Better idea:

• ALT3: ... that though police investigating the disappearance of Leah Roberts found her wrecked Jeep 15 years ago today, they only looked under the hood in 2006 and saw the starter relay wire had been cut?

This preserves the anniversary date, and comes out to 194 characters. Daniel Case (talk) 03:07, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

• Great. ALT3 hook refs verified and cited inline. Since I only added the year, 2006, to the original hook, I'm going ahead and approving this. ALT3 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 13:46, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
• Moving to Special Occasions holding area for March 18. Yoninah (talk) 13:46, 8 March 2015 (UTC)