Talk:Hiodon woodruffi

A fact from Hiodon woodruffi appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 February 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the extinct mooneye fish Hiodon woodruffi was not described until 1978, although the earliest finds date to 1906?

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Did you know nomination

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 Joofjoof (talk) 19:16, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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H. woodruffi fossil

... that the extinct mooneye Hiodon woodruffi (pictured) was described in 1978, while the earliest finds date to 1906?

Reviewed: Laudakia nupta

Moved to mainspace by Kevmin (talk). Self-nominated at 00:03, 25 January 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Article is new, long enough, neutral, and cites sources. Earwig finds no copyvios. I added an alt text to the image in the article. The DYK facts are cited in the article, and I was able to check the facts in the cited paper. Hook is short enough and interesting. However I'd suggest rephrasing the hook a little though to make it clearer as follows:

... that the extinct mooneye fish Hiodon woodruffi (pictured) was not described until 1978, although the earliest finds date to 1906?

Philepitta (talk) 04:45, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I have no issues with the rewording--Kev min § 05:11, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]