Template:Did you know nominations/Ras Al-Khair Power and Desalination Plant


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:38, 3 February 2017 (UTC)

Ras Al-Khair Power and Desalination Plant

 * ... that the Ras Al-Khair Power and Desalination Plant in Saudi Arabia is the world's largest hybrid desalination plant? Source: "World’s largest hybrid desalination plant starts pumping"

Created/expanded by Hammersoft (talk). Self-nominated at 19:23, 20 January 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Article is new enough and long enough. http://www.constructionweekonline.com/ does not work for me. Saudi Archirodon is not mentioned in the source. I notice that the Persian Gulf is never explicitly stated to be the water source - or sink. Same for the use of a wastewater plant. What is "currently"? - such time dependent language is probably best avoided. Didn't notice any copyvio, plagiarism or NPOV issue. Hook is interesting and sourced inline in the article, but I caution against using headlines as sources as the nomination source does. No QPQ needed. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:46, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * This link, which is the source referred to, works fine for me. Try again? The source for Saudi Archirodon is at the end of the very next sentence. Regardless, I duplicated it in the sentence to which you are referring. On Persian Gulf; if you mean the sources don't indicate that, you're right; they don't. Given that the plant is sitting on the shores of the Persian Gulf, given that the outflow pipes are only a few kilometers long (noted in another source), it would make no sense to pump water from any other source. I think our readers can conclude this information is accurate without having to provide an explicit source for stating the inflow/outflow is the Persian Gulf when the plant sits on the Persian Gulf. Headlines are part of news reporting. I don't see a problem with it. They aren't any less accurate from the secondary source's perspective just because they're in the headline rather than the body of the article. Please feel free though to change it to some other language, or reject the DYK nom entirely for it and the unsubstantiated Persian Gulf claim. Honestly, it doesn't bother me. DYK is so badly backed up, this won't be the world's largest desalination plant by the time someone gets around to this anyway. It might even be closed by then :) --Hammersoft (talk) 14:15, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * That leaves the mention of a "wastewater plant" as the only sourcing issue. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 15:21, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I'm not seeing it. The source notes the wastewater treatment plant as part of the project. --Hammersoft (talk) 15:36, 24 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg, after removing a "source" that was creating confusion. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 17:00, 24 January 2017 (UTC)