Talk:Irish Steel

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A fact from Irish Steel appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 June 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Irish government had budgeted €61 million to clean up the former site of the Irish Steel plant, twenty years after selling it for £1?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Irish Steel.

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Desertarun (talk) 08:41, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that, twenty years after selling the Irish Steel plant for £1, the Irish government had budgeted €61m to clean up the plant's former site? Source: "New name as Irish Steel sold for £1" (Irish Times; 1996), "€61m for Haulbowline 'not enough' to convert old steel plant to public amenity" (Irish Examiner; 2016)
- ALT1:... that dumping of waste at the Irish Steel plant on Haulbowline island increased the island's size by at least 9 hectares? Source: "The East Tip is an area of land, approximately 9 hectares in size, reclaimed from the sea by infilling with waste and by-products from the former Ispat steelworks" (Environmental Protection Agency; 2013), "{The} East Tip {..} is a bare expanse area of reclaimed land on the east side of Haulbowline Island in Cork Harbour {..} given as nine hectares {..} formed from waste from the steelworks (An Bord Pleanála; 2014)
- ALT2:... that contamination at the former Irish Steel plant on Haulbowline island led environmental campaigners, including Erin Brokovich, to call for a cleanup? Source: Campaign star Erin falls ill on Irish visit (Evening Herald; 2008), "campaigner Erin Brokovich was among those who called for the site to be cleaned" (Irish Examiner; 2018)

Reviewed: HMS Sherwood (shore establishment)

Created by Guliolopez (talk). Self-nominated at 20:13, 7 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Y Article is long enough (6221 characters), new enough (created 3 June, nominated 7 June), and article is within policy
Y All the hooks are short enough, interesting and well cited. I prefer ALT0 or ALT1, as ALT2 only works well if people know who Erin Brokovich is (which I didn't know off-hand)
Y QPQ done
Overall, this nomination passes, congratulations. Joseph2302 (talk) 16:00, 14 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]