Template:Did you know nominations/Loess Plateau
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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 07:10, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
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Loess Plateau
Loess landscape near Hunyuan, Datong, Shanxi Province, China
... that the loess in the Loess Plateau can come from over 1,250 km (780 mi) away?Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)ALT1: ... that the loess in the Loess Plateau can travel over 1,250 km (780 mi)?as above
- Reviewed: Capitalism in America
- Comment: For Regional Geology class in Hong Kong University
5x expanded by Christycheungkayan (talk). Nominated by Graeme Bartlett (talk) at 00:45, 15 November 2021 (UTC).
- This is just a comment but it may be a good idea to at least link to loess or somehow explain it since it's a technical term that most people probably don't know the meaning of. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:53, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Graeme Bartlett:
Hi there! Since we've gone from 4,706 characters of prose pre-expansion (in the week before nomination) to 18,572 presently, this article has only undergone a 3.95x expansion—to get to 5x expansion would require a total of 23,530 prose bytes, or 4,958 additional characters. Could this be done? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 21:38, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- The previous prose size was 3900 characters dated 2 August 2021. The date the page was moved would count as the expansion date, as history was merged from the sandbox on 13 Nov 2021, making the dates in the history a bit confusing. So that would mean the page should get to 19500 characters. It was that big when I nominated it. But since then some of the text was turned into a table. So I suppose I can de-table some text. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:34, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- Oh, I see, my mistake—interesting, I didn't see the histmerge. Yeah, you're much closer in that case—almost there! theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 23:01, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- theleekycauldron, it looks like Graeme Bartlett did do the detabling, and the prose character count is now 19656, just above fivefold of 3900. Please continue your review. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:56, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
Coolio! Article has indeed undergone a 5.04x expansion. The article is neutral, but if you could stick some citations on the paragraphs that end in "*blank* is broken up into x number of cycles or stages", that'd be helpful. Earwig returns a hit on the lead, but the wordpress article in question got it from you, not the other way around, so we're cool. The hook doesn't appear in the article, so that'll have to be slotted in and cited at the end of the sentence. A QPQ has been done. We're nearly there! theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 20:22, 9 December 2021 (UTC)- @Graeme Bartlett, how we lookin'? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 08:53, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
- The original writer suggest the distance, but she has not put it in, so I will propose another hook Graeme Bartlett (talk) 10:21, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
alt1 ... that the source of the Loess Plateau is the Gobi Desert and other nearby deserts?https://doi.org/10.1016%2FS0012-821X%2802%2900921-4 " the sand deserts were the primary single source of the Chinese loess. It is argued that the gobi (stony desert) in southern Mongolia and the adjoining gobi and sand deserts (the Badain Jaran Desert, Tengger Desert, Ulan Buh Desert, Hobq Desert and Mu Us Desert) in China, rather than the three inland basins, are the dominant source areas of the Loess Plateau."- @Graeme Bartlett: Hmm, I'm not sure that's the best hook to run. How about: theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 19:48, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
- ALT2: ... that one of the largest and thickest loess plateaus in the world is the Loess Plateau in China?
- alt2 is OK with me. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 20:32, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
- theleekycauldron, it looks like Graeme Bartlett did do the detabling, and the prose character count is now 19656, just above fivefold of 3900. Please continue your review. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 19:56, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
- Oh, I see, my mistake—interesting, I didn't see the histmerge. Yeah, you're much closer in that case—almost there! theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/them) 23:01, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- The previous prose size was 3900 characters dated 2 August 2021. The date the page was moved would count as the expansion date, as history was merged from the sandbox on 13 Nov 2021, making the dates in the history a bit confusing. So that would mean the page should get to 19500 characters. It was that big when I nominated it. But since then some of the text was turned into a table. So I suppose I can de-table some text. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:34, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
- @Graeme Bartlett:
- This is just a comment but it may be a good idea to at least link to loess or somehow explain it since it's a technical term that most people probably don't know the meaning of. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 05:53, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
Promoting ALT2, with image, and with (pictured), to prep 2 – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 07:10, 31 December 2021 (UTC)