Template:Did you know nominations/Topolnița Cave
- 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:41, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
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Topolnița Cave[edit]
- ... that Topolnița Cave is home to the largest colony of greater horseshoe bats in Europe...? Source: [1] "...final count yielded 7,482 greater horseshoe bats. This number means that the colony is by far the largest aggregation of this species in Europe..."
Created by Premeditated Chaos (talk). Self-nominated at 22:53, 17 October 2017 (UTC).
The length, hook, content and sourcing is all okay. The article was created 9 days prior to the nomination but was substantially added to a week before, so I would argue for bending the "seven days" rule. The only guideline this fails is that the hook sentence needs to have a citation at the end of it. Could the paragraph with the hook sentence in be reworded to have the hook at the end? I would suggest something like:
- Due to the relatively high temperature of the cave, it is a suitable habitat for some fauna. A 2015 survey conducted as part of an effort to protect Romania's bats found 7,485 individual greater horseshoe bats living in the cave, which makes it home to the largest colony of greater horseshoe bats in Europe.
- or, simply repeat the citations at the end of both sentences. – filelakeshoe (t / c) 12:03, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
