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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 17:51, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
... that the cucumber seeds botanist Elwyn Meader brought back from Korea in 1948 became the basis for all modern cucumber hybrids grown worldwide? Source: "The seed Meader sent home to New England shortly after the Japanese were ousted from Korea by World War II has become the basis for all hybrid cucumber seed production." (Yankee Ingenuity Aids the Cucumber - The New York Times)
Comment: Article was moved to mainspace in this edit. Also, the source article for the hook has a typo and says "1998" rather than "1948", likely from when it was digitized. The former year is clearly wrong, since the article itself was published in 1979.
Overall: The original article for the hook source indeed says "1948" ([1], access required), so no issue there. It also says: "[The seed Meader sent home] also led to machine harvesting of pickling cucumbers. The industry in the U.S. alone is valued at more than $130,000,000" (emphasis added), which shows the author is talking about production globally rather than just in the US, so "worldwide" is valid. All criteria are satisfied, with no copyvio issues, the article nominated within the valid time frame, and the subject and hook interesting. Alt hooks could be generated from the lede, but the current one is good. Somnifuguist (talk) 23:28, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
The original article for the hook source indeed says "1948" ([1], access required), so no issue there. It also says: "[The seed Meader sent home] also led to machine harvesting of pickling cucumbers. The industry in the U.S. alone is valued at more than $130,000,000" (emphasis added), which shows the author is talking about production globally rather than just in the US, so "worldwide" is valid. All criteria are satisfied, with no copyvio issues, the article nominated within the valid time frame, and the subject and hook interesting. Alt hooks could be generated from the lede, but the current one is good. Somnifuguist (talk) 23:28, 12 April 2021 (UTC)