Template:Did you know nominations/Sankofa (Oogenus)
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The result was: promoted by Zanhe (talk) 16:22, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
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Sankofa (Oogenus)
[edit]... that Sankofa is a kind of fossil egg showing a transition from dinosaurs to birds?
5x expanded by Ashorocetus (talk). Self-nominated at 03:21, 24 December 2015 (UTC).
Thank you for your interesting work here. The expansion is new and big enough, the article is long enough, the hook is interesting. No close paraphrasing or copyright issues detected, QPQ confirmed. Offline source accepted in good faith. Just a very minor issue: even though this could be splitting hairs and even though I do understand that there is very strong evidence for these eggs belonging to a transitional species, the article never states with full certainty that it belongs to a transitional species ("may represent", "probably represents"), so IMHO it would be better if the hook was modified accordingly. --GGT (talk) 00:58, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
- OK, yeah that makes sense. Here's an alt to try: Ashorocetus (talk | contribs) 01:54, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
ALT1: ... that Sankofa is a kind of fossil egg that was probably laid by a transitional species from dinosaurs to birds?
All good to go with the alternative blurb. Thank you for your work here. --GGT (talk) 08:01, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
- I was looking to promote this, but then realized that the word "fossil" never appears in the article proper. All hooks facts must appear in the article itself, and be supported with source citations by the end of the sentence in which the fact can be found. This will need to be fixed. Also, while the Sankofa may be fossilized now, I'm pretty sure it was originally a non-fossilized egg, so the hook is a bit odd in that regard as well. I struck the original hook due to the issues raised by GGT. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:22, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
- OK. The word oogenus implies fossil egg, but I added the word "fossilized" to the final sentence of the lead so there's no ambiguity. I could rephrase the hook to be less weird on that point, maybe like so:Ashorocetus (talk | contribs) 21:24, 9 January 2016 (UTC)
ALT2 ... that Sankofa is the fossilized remains of eggs that were probably laid by a transitional species from dinosaurs to birds?
Reviewer requested for ALT1 and ALT2 hooks, to see which version works better; the word "fossilized" was added to a supporting, cited sentence as noted above. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:30, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
