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Did you know nomination

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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 (talk23:13, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Created by Melissa Highton (talk). Self-nominated at 10:51, 3 March 2022 (UTC).[reply]

  • Melissa Highton, the hook needs to have wikilinks (at least one) and the link to the target article, Raptor persecution, needs to be in bold font. If you want to have quote marks in the hook, you need to use proper quotation marks. With regards to the hook fact, it's the Scottish Raptor Study Group that assigns the honorary raptor status. To me, it's a bit far-fetched to thus say "that in Scotland, the common raven is given" this status. Beyond that, the article is new, long enough, suitably referenced, neutral. The sentence "Wind turbines are an increasing feature in rural areas and raptors have been struck or killed by the circling blades." is word-for-word from this source and needs to be reworded. The sentence "... the common raven is given 'honorary raptor ' status as a bird of prey by virtue of its ecological similarity to raptors" is also too close to this source, where it reads: "Because of its ecological similarity to raptors, the common raven is given honorary status as a bird of prey". It seems this is your third DYK so no PQP QPQ is required. Schwede66 21:33, 3 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I took a look at this, after discussion with Melissa. Here's an idea for an alternative hook:

Andrew🐉(talk) 15:03, 25 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  • ALT2 is good to go now that copyvio and close paraphrasing have been addressed. Hook fact checks out. I've added a comma to that hook and wikilinked raven (happy for it to be unlinked again if it's thought of as too common a word). I've struck ALT0 and ALT1 for clarity. ALT1 could also be considered as the hook fact checks out but not as currently written in simple past, as that implies that the COVID-19 pandemic is over; this would most certainly result in a report at WP:ERRORS. I'd be happy to consider a modified ALT1 as well if that's desired but you'd also need to add the source stated here to the article, or point me to one of the sources already in the article that confirms the fact. Schwede66 19:28, 26 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Background

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I don't see how the background section fits the article. The article is about a crime specific to the UK. Without showing that raptor persecution is also a crime in those other societies, it seems inaccurate to use those societies' practices as background. Gvros8 (talk) 20:55, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It would be great to get some more international content and context. I am sure it is not only a crime in the UK, but the crimes are very context specific. I can change 'background' to 'context' and hope more people will add content in? Or we could start sections for other countries? Melissa Highton (talk) 15:00, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Melissa Highton, we already have a page on this topic – please see Talk:Raptor conservation#Proposed merge of Raptor persecution into Raptor conservation. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 18:14, 5 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]