Talk:Teshio River

A fact from Teshio River appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 August 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Hokkaidō Heritage includes the Teshio River, named after the Ainu for "river full of fishing weirs"?

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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 Yoninah (talk) 22:04, 5 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Teshio River as viewed from the Sōya Main Line

... that Hokkaidō Heritage includes the Teshio River (pictured), named after the Ainu for a fishing weir? Source: japanese language refs [1] [2]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Franciszek Ksawery Niesiołowski

5x expanded by Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk). Self-nominated at 14:42, 23 July 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Article is new enough and long enough. All sources are in Japanese so AGFing on them all. QPQ is OK. Hook is so-so. The "drop random sentences into Google" test yields no evidence of copyvio or plagiarism. Might want to pluralize the "fishing weir" in the hook, though. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 21:03, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]