Template:Did you know nominations/Tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 17:44, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

Tectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains

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... that the Transantarctic Mountains are one of the longest ranges formed by continental rifting?

Created/expanded by Ladam26 (talk). Nominated by Graeme Bartlett (talk) at 10:48, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

I'm on it--editing right now. Then we walk the dog, then we get back to it. Drmies (talk) 22:19, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
OK, I've done as much as I can do. Here's my comments. I'm not sure if the current organization is conventional or acceptable for such articles--esp. the first main section strikes me as odd, but I don't normally work on sciency articles (note I won't go as far as placing a cn tag next to the word evolution, haha), but as far as I'm concerned it's good enough for DYK. The article is long enough and new enough. The first image, of the mountain peaks, has a licensing problem--I cannot ascertain whether that is problematic or not, and at any rate it's not part of this nomination. [UPDATE: I see where Map of the Transantarctic Mountain Range.jpg comes from and, Ladam26, that ain't right: please go to your Commons talk page and explain; I am removing it from the article since I have no reason to believe it's not a copyvio, and I'm going to do the same for the mountain range. This is very unfortunate, and if you get this straightened out we can stick it back in.]
Now, the hook wasn't cited but I found where it's from--I'm just going to add the footnote to the lead, we're not doing Good Article review anyway. I looked at all the references I could and found no evidence of plagiarism. (For the next step, though, I'd suggest taking a lead from Cooper's article: this tectonic evolution needs to be, or at least involve, a kind of narrative.) So, after all this, the article is OK, but I think there's some work to do here. Drmies (talk) 23:43, 12 November 2012 (UTC)