Template:Did you know nominations/Phoenix, Arizona

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The result was: promoted by Gatoclass (talk) 09:39, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Phoenix, Arizona

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• ... that Phoenix is the most populous state capital in the United States?

• ALT1:... that a bird has grown nearly 4% per year for the past 40 years?
• Reviewed: Disappearance of Brian Shaffer
• Comment: ALT1 as possible April Fool's hook

Improved to Good Article status by Onel5969 (talk). Nominated by SSTflyer (talk) at 09:22, 27 March 2016 (UTC).

• Where is the ALT1 hook fact with an inline cite in the article? Yoninah (talk) 12:25, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

• @Onel5969: where? This is a GA, and should not contain unsourced statements. SSTflyer 13:32, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

• Anyway, I will provide another April Fool's hook:
• ALT2: ... that a bird more than quadrupled in size between 1950 and 1960? SSTflyer 13:38, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

• Nominated for DYK on same day as received GA icon. New enough, long enough, well referenced, neutrally written, no close paraphrasing seen. Since we did catch that non-referenced statement (ALT1) in the lead, and since Wikipedia is timeless, please provide both a citation and a specific time frame of years or decades for this statement. ALT2 is suitably hooky for April Fools Day; offline hook ref AGF and cited inline. QPQ done. Yoninah (talk) 14:37, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

• Solved by removing the paragraph from the lead section. SSTflyer 15:24, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

• OK, someone else added it back with a cite. ALT2 is good to go for April Fools Day. One minute. The second statement is cited, the 4% figure is not. Yoninah (talk) 16:20, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

•  Done SSTflyer 16:41, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

• @SSTflyer: I understand what you're doing, but User:Rjensen doesn't. Perhaps you could work it out with him before this goes live on April 1. Yoninah (talk) 17:09, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

• I think my edit summary is clear enough. SSTflyer 17:11, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

• I'll give this a few more hours to see if there's going to be any edit warring. Yoninah (talk) 17:16, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

• So far so good. ALT2 good to go for April Fools Day. Yoninah (talk) 19:49, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

• I would much prefer ALT1 though if it could be verified. Gatoclass (talk) 05:18, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

• @Gatoclass: I found the ref and added it to the article. However, the 40-year period ended in the mid-2000s. The correct wording would be:
• ALT3: ... that a bird grew nearly 4% per year over a span of four decades? Yoninah (talk) 16:48, 28 March 2016 (UTC)

• ALT3 verified to source provided, and meets criteria based on length, neutrality, and interestingness. SSTflyer 14:59, 30 March 2016 (UTC)