Template:Did you know nominations/GPS Air

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The result was: promoted by RoySmith (talk) 16:55, 9 November 2022 (UTC)

GPS Air

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• ... that Global Plasma Solutions' air purification devices used in schools had a class-action lawsuit filed against them for not functioning as advertised and potentially being harmful? Source: Do air purifiers protect against Covid? Lawsuit says company makes 'false' claims - NBC News
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Created by Silver seren (talk). Self-nominated at 02:00, 27 October 2022 (UTC).

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: @Silver seren: Good article! Hook is interesting, QPQ is done, and the article is sourced. Approving. Onegreatjoke (talk) 18:04, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Silver seren and Onegreatjoke, i believe the proposed hook, as it stands, states that the lawsuit was filed against the air purification devices rather than the company. would the following rewording be more accurate?

• alt0b: ... that a class-action lawsuit was filed against Global Plasma Solutions stating that their air purification devices used in schools did not function as advertised and were potentially harmful?

also, did the lawsuit actually state that the devices were potentially harmful? i admittedly could not find this explicitly mentioned in the source provided. dying (talk) 09:55, 31 October 2022 (UTC)

@Dying: I removed the commas in your alt, but otherwise, I'm fine with it being used as a replacement. I agree that yours is more straightforward. As for the lawsuit, yes, as the law group filing the class action also note over here. Silverseren^C 00:48, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Silver seren, thanks for the additional source. admittedly, i couldn't figure out where that source mentions that the lawsuit stated that the devices were potentially harmful, but it helped me find this pdf file, which appears to be the complaint itself. it asserts that the devices produce harmful volatile organic compounds, which is close enough to "were potentially harmful" for me. also, i was torn over whether the hook read better with or without the commas, so have no issues with their omission. by the way, thanks for adding the bold formatting that i had forgotten to include.

Onegreatjoke, does alt0b look okay to you? dying (talk) 05:59, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

• Hook looks good. Onegreatjoke (talk) 13:11, 4 November 2022 (UTC)