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A fact from Diesel (donkey) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 July 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that after disappearing in 2019, a donkey is now "living his best life" with a wild elk herd?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 02:06, 22 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that after disappearing in 2019, Diesel is "living his best life" with a wild elk herd?

Source: “Finally we saw him,” Drewry told KOVR this month after the Instagram video began making headlines. “Finally, we know he’s good. He’s living his best life. He’s happy. He’s healthy, and it was just a relief.”

ALT1: ... that after disappearing in 2019, a donkey is now "living his best life" with a wild elk herd?
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bad Dürrenberg burial

Created by Gobonobo (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 121 past nominations.

gobonobo ⁺ ^c 02:57, 28 June 2024 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article checks out for newness, length, and plagiarism; on the shorter side, but still long enough to be counted for DYK. Well written and well sourced. Hook is interesting and cited; I personally believe ALT1 to be the more interesting of the proposed hooks. QPQ done by editor. Overall checks out, ~~however article is currently nominated for AfD, so until that process has been completed the review is on hold.~~ Sims2aholic8 (talk) 09:35, 30 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Passing this now that article has survived AfD. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 08:37, 9 July 2024 (UTC) Sims2aholic8 (talk)[reply]

Not a review, but the fact that Diesel is a suspect in a lion mountain homicide strikes me as even more interesting than the proposed hooks. Bremps... 22:28, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Adding an alt here:

ALT2: ... that the escaped donkey Diesel is "living his best life" with a wild elk herd?

@Bremps: I really like the "living his best life" quote. Maybe there's a way to incorporate both. Something like...that an escaped donkey "living his best life" may have killed a mountain lion? I'm reluctant to go with a "may have killed" hook though, since others have pointed out that the article is already pretty heavy on speculation. For what it's worth, this reference indicates that donkeys killing mountain lions is rare, but not unheard of. Maybe Sims2aholic8 has an opinion now that the article has survived AfD. gobonobo ⁺ ^c 01:08, 6 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

User:Gobonobo I get it, I also like to cleanse my DYK hooks of speculation. If you're willing to stomach the "possibly", that's not a bad hook. Bremps... 02:12, 7 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I also really like the "living his best life" quote, so definitely keen to place that in the hook. Also completely understand the reluctance to lean on speculation here re. the mountain lion, but it is a very interesting aspect of this story. Potentially something along the lines of that an escaped donkey "living his best life" with an elk herd was reported to have killed a mountain lion? I think it's important to note why he's living his best life (i.e. with the elk herd); without that caveat I'm not sure how relevant the quote is to the hook. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 08:37, 9 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]