Template:Did you know nominations/Eastern swamp crayfish


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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 07:44, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Eastern swamp crayfish

 * ... that the eastern swamp crayfish (pictured) is the smallest species of crayfish in the world?
 * ALT1:... that newly moulted eastern swamp crayfishes (pictured) move into deeper water, presumably to avoid being cannibalized?
 * Reviewed: Pyrenean frog

5x expanded by G S Palmer (talk). Self nominated at 16:17, 9 October 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg 5X expanded. Both hooks and content verified by cited sources.  Image is properly licensed.  I prefer Hook #1 --Mike Cline (talk) 21:58, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
 * did you check for close paraphrasing? Most of the text is taken from footnote 1. Yoninah (talk) 23:04, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg I did, and almost mentioned it, but given the scientific (not general coverage) nature of the source and topic, I think GS did a reasonable job of exacting highlights from the source without plagiarizing. It is difficult (having done this myself) to restate scientific details from sources like this without the appearance of close paraphrasing.  I am AGF on GS's part for this.--Mike Cline (talk) 13:01, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

Reopened, pulled from queue, as discussed at WT:DYK. Hook fact is at least debatable, and probably wrong; it wasn't supported by the body of the source used to reference it, and neither was the claim in the paper behind all this, and there is strong evidence of a better contender. Fram (talk) 06:52, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
 * ALT1 seems fine and is reliably sourced, so let's just go with that. I've removed the "smallest" statement from the article's lead section itself; it did not appear in the body.   I, JethroBT  drop me a line 10:18, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
 * "is among the smallest species" should fix ALT0. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  10:24, 16 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg New review needed.  I have struck ALT0 due to the concerns raised above.  G S Palmer (talk • contribs) 21:44, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg This article meets the DYK criteria as mentioned above. I have tweaked ALT1 so that it is borne out by the article and sources by adding the word "presumably", because this is only a hypothesis not a proven fact. Good to go. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:53, 10 November 2014 (UTC)