Template:Did you know nominations/Perchlorate
- 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: rejected by Allen3 talk 12:12, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
Insufficient recent expansion
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Perchlorate
[edit]- ... that perchlorate is mainly used for rocket fuel and can cause many health effects such as thyroidal problems, if exposed from perchlorate contamination?
Created/expanded by Kohw (talk). Self nominated at 19:49, 17 March 2014 (UTC).
Insufficient recent expansion. No evidence of a recent GA promotion. Article had 16775 characters of readable prose on February 22, 2014 and is now at 21694 characters (a 1.29x expansion). This is well below the 5x minimum required by DYK. --Allen3 talk 20:27, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
- Hi Allen, I am not quite sure of what your comment meant. Could you explain once again what I should fix about DYK nomination? Kohw (talk)
- The DYK rules require any article nominated to be featured on DYK to meet a number of requirements. The first of these requirements is a "newness" requirement. As the perchlorate article has existed since April 2004, there are two possible methods for it to meet this requirement. The first is to expand by previously existing article by at least 5x. The second is to get it promoted to GA status. There is no indication that the nominated article meets either of these options. You can find additional details on the complete list of criteria that must be met before DYK can use your nomination by following the blue links I have provided. --Allen3 talk 23:59, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
- This article appears to be the subject of educational assignment. In the recent past there have been problems with chemistry articles expanded as part of class projects in which much of the added content was inaccurate, unbalanced, confusing, or otherwise problematic. I'm not saying that is necessarily the case here, but I would recommend waiting until the assignment is over and then getting input from Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry or Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemicals participants before this page is featured on the main page. -- Ed (Edgar181) 19:35, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
The article currently has 23349 prose characters, and is not even at 1.5x, much less the required 5x. It seems clear that the article is not going to be expanded sufficiently; its only path to DYK is for it to become a Good Article, as Allen3 noted above, and then nominated again within five days of passage. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:09, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
