Talk:Mombasa tusks

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I'm afraid I'm disappointed with the hook used for this interesting article. Is something about Africa only of significance because the US military is involved? Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:23, 19 December 2021 (UTC)


 * I think this has less to do with the United States than you might think, and more to do with hook wording. The Mombasa tusks are undoubtedly impressive; but "look at this thing" often doesn't make a very enticing hook, even if the object itself is interesting. To make a hook like this cohesive, it helps to have something secondarily interesting about it, so that it can still pass off in the format of "Did you know ?" But make no mistake, the primary attraction of this hook, the thing that lured in over 17,000 viewers in 12 hours, was the tusks, not the marines. The marines are the unexpected thing that makes this look like a good hook, and it helps, but the tusks still do the heavy lifting. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 01:53, 22 December 2021 (UTC)