Template:Did you know nominations/Hydrology of the Catawissa Tunnel


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The result was: rejected by BencherliteTalk 11:24, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Hydrology of the Catawissa Tunnel

 * ... that the discharge of the Catawissa Tunnel contains 30 different metals and metalloids?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cornelis Hazevoet
 * Comment: Some text was copied from Catawissa Tunnel, but that text is less than 24 hours old.

Created by Jakec (talk). Self nominated at 12:22, 18 October 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol delete vote.svg The article has 4693 prose characters, of which nearly half were copied from the Catawissa Tunnel article (adding up all the prose "hits" found by Duplication detector, I got 2278, which is a good enough ballpark). Regardless of how old they are, the fact remains that they originated in the other article and were copied, and that by DYK rules copied material must be expanded 5x, means that this article must be in the neighborhood of 11390 prose characters to be eligible. BlueMoonset (talk) 22:34, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * What if I removed that text and rewrote the whole thing from scratch? --Jakob (talk)  23:24, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Re-writing it to avoid the awful opening prose that is "This article is about... It discusses..." would be an excellent first step. BencherliteTalk 19:49, 24 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Jakob, if you rewrote the copied sections in this article from scratch, then the material wouldn't be copied any more, and the article could be eligible. You'd need to reduce the amount of copied material to less than a fifth of the total (in prose characters). BlueMoonset (talk) 07:39, 25 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Closing per Jakob's comment at WT:DYK "Forget it. It's not worth rewriting the whole thing just for a DYKmake credit. Can someone who knows what they're doing close it? --Jakob (talk) 22:55, 24 November 2014 (UTC)"