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Great Salt Lake whale hoax

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• ... that in 1888, a sensational story claimed that a British scientist, James Wickham, introduced two whales to the Great Salt Lake in an attempt to start a whale oil industry?

• Source: https://www.hjnews.com/news/local/the-beehive-archive-a-whale-of-a-tale-from-early-slc-newspapers/article_6c92436d-050b-5fd7-a2e5-57966dd2e7cd.html

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tropical Storm Chris (2024)

Moved to mainspace by RadicalUranium (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

OhHaiMark (talk) 17:09, 29 August 2024 (UTC).

• The hook is interesting and the article is new enough. I'll be checking through the rest of the DYK reqs shortly. ❯❯❯ Mccunicano☕️ 00:49, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
  • Article appears to be free from copyvio, and the hook is backed up by a paywalled hook reference that I will AGF. I think the lead of the article could be expanded some before appearing on the Main Page. Once that's done I think it should be good to go! ❯❯❯ Mccunicano☕️ 01:05, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
  • I've touched up the article and expanded the lead as suggested. Thanks for the review, and I believe it's now ready for further consideration. RadicalUranium (talk) 23:34, 8 September 2024 (UTC)
    • Great work, I'll go ahead and approve the article and hook. ❯❯❯ Mccunicano☕️ 04:36, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
      • @Mccunicano: I'd make sure to use the updated name of the article, Great Salt Lake whale hoax, as the word "myth" appears in this nomination. Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 07:40, 9 September 2024 (UTC)
        • (Never mind, just updated across the board. Hope that works, it's a fun article title :v) Utopes _{(talk / cont)} 07:51, 9 September 2024 (UTC)