Template:Did you know nominations/Environmental issues in North Korea

Environmental issues in North Korea

 * ... that environmental issues in North Korea are described as "so severe it could destabilize the whole country"?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Chupkatha

Created by Bonkers The Clown (talk). Self nominated at 03:48, 11 June 2013 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Article only a day old at the time of nomination, article more than 1500 words, hook only about 90-120 characters, reliable-enough source. And most importantly, the hook is very interesting. -- Arctic Kangaroo (  ✉  •  ✎  ) 09:44, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol possible vote.svg Article is long enough by character count, but it's a pretty vestigial article for the magnitude of its topic. (When there are seven subheadings in an article with less than 2000 characters of prose, that's a hint that the article is still as stub.) Also, the quotation used in the hook is an opinion, but it's not attributed in the article. I find from looking at the source that the author of the quotation is a freelance writer of an article on the website for the TV series Nova. He's not the sort of authority whose opinions should be featured as quotations on the main page, particularly when his article and other sources have plenty of really compelling quotations from people who are authoritative voices. --Orlady (talk) 15:33, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * How about I remove those subsections? It provides enough info for the average reader. He's a writer for PBS, a reliable source. Good enough, I think. ☯ Bonkers The Clown  \(^_^)/  Nonsensical Babble  ☯ 06:07, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Removing the section headings doesn't resolve the concern. This is a very minimal article about a very big topic. It needs some more substance before we can feature it in DYK. As for the source, PBS is generally a reliable source, but that does not make a freelance journalist's comment into an authoritative factual quotation. This journalist is a freelance writer who interviewed some experts who had been to North Korea; he is not himself an authority. However, his article and other sources cited in the article have content that would support a much longer article and some interesting options for hooks. --Orlady (talk) 18:22, 26 June 2013 (UTC)


 * Symbol delete vote.svg No additions to article since the above; it remains a vestigial article as noted by Orlady, and thus unsuited for DYK and the main page. Closing nomination. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:10, 9 July 2013 (UTC)