Talk:Motilla del Azuer

A fact from Motilla del Azuer appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 November 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that an interdisciplinary study concluded that the Motilla del Azuer was built during the 4.2-kiloyear BP aridification event, in a long period of severe drought?

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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 RoySmith (talk) 23:53, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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View of Motilla del Azuer in 2016

... that an interdisciplinary study concluded that the Motilla del Azuer (pictured) was built during the 4.2-kiloyear BP aridification event, ~~due to~~ in a long period of severe drought?
Source: M. Mejías Moreno et al., "The first uses of groundwater in the Iberian Peninsula: the Daimiel motillas in the Bronze Age of La Mancha", in Boletín Geológico y Minero 125 (4) (2014), 455-474: see abstract in English on first page: “These [Daimiel motillas] were built during the Climatic Event 4.2 ka cal BP, in a time of environmental stress due to a period of severe, prolonged drought.”
- Reviewed: Tomb of Casimir IV Jagiellon

Created by Moonraker (talk). Self-nominated at 06:39, 9 November 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Article is new enough (created 11/9) and long enough. Earwig detects some overlap with one of the sources, but the copied portion is a direct quote placed in quotation marks and attributed, so not an issue. The hook is short enough, interesting, and supported by inline citation. My Spanish is good enough to say that the hook looks good but not good enough to verify 100%. Photo is excellent and has Creative Commons 2.0 license. QPQ is done. Cbl62 (talk) 20:10, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review, Cbl62. I have added above the passage from the source which the hook relies on. I think your point may be about the words “due to”, so I have changed them to “in”. Is that better? Moonraker (talk) 07:08, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]