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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 23:18, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

Macrotermitinae

 * ... that termites developed agriculture some 31 million years ago?  Source: "we have recalibrated molecular divergence estimates for the origins of termite agriculture to around 31 Ma,"
 * Reviewed: Arjan Hasid

5x expanded by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 14:12, 25 March 2017 (UTC).


 * The article is long enough:
 * The hook is REALLY interesting:
 * The hook is referenced:
 * The hook is below 200 characters:
 * No (0%) copyvio found with Earwig's tool:
 * The article follows most other important policies:
 * QPQ:
 * The article is a 5-fold expansion in last7 days: Symbol question.svg
 * This is a lovely, short DYK that hits you between the eyes with its hook. Unless I've got it wrong, I think a 5x expansion should result in the article being 10,925 bytes; but its currently only 7,767. If this can be addressed, it will be good to go. Nick Moyes (talk) 12:48, 28 March 2017 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the review. The five-fold expansion refers to the number of characters of readable prose, the bullet pointed list of genera does not count. One can calculate the number of characters with this tool- which gives 661-->3934 - or the page size tool that I have on my dashboard, which makes it 659-->3896. Either way I think it's OK. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 13:12, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

Then I'll gladly accept that and add the tool to my list of useful stuff. DYK is therefore good to go. Nick Moyes (talk) 13:17, 28 March 2017 (UTC)