Template:Did you know nominations/Tectonics of the South China Sea


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 18:11, 22 January 2015 (UTC)

Tectonics of the South China Sea

 * ... that the continental crust below the South China Sea started to split apart from the Eurasian Plate 55 million years ago?
 * Reviewed: none required but will do one later
 * Comment: moved on 14 November

Moved to mainspace by Chang21liu (talk). Nominated by Graeme Bartlett (talk) at 07:02, 17 November 2014 (UTC).


 * Confirmed that the article was moved to mainspace on November 14 and is long enough. There are no plagiarism issues and images used are free to use. QPQ is not needed and hook is interesting enough with valid inline citation. I just have some clarifications/issues in the article. 1) the number of years is not (precisely) mentioned in the article unless you meant 55 MA. Though that is still an estimate so you may want to add "around 55 million..." on your hook. 2) If I'm not mistaken, the rift system is a theory. If it's so, you may want to modify your hook such that it suggests a 'theory' and not a 'fact'. The hook is still engaging, though. :) 001Jrm (talk) 04:46, 17 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Most of the images used in this article have uncertain copyright status, something that I raised on the article talk page a while ago. Figures 2,3,5,6 & 7 all appear to be copied out of scientific papers, with attribution, but without any evidence that the copyright holders permission has either been sought or received. Mikenorton (talk) 19:53, 24 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Thanks Mikenorton, I will chop the dubious picture, and I will propose this alternate hook then:
 * alt1 ... that in theory the continental crust below the South China Sea started to split apart from the Eurasian Plate around 55 million years ago?
 * Graeme Bartlett (talk) 03:25, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg I'm already ok with ALT1. :) Just needing more experienced editor/s to recheck if the images used are of fair use and I think it's good to go. 001Jrm (talk) 05:58, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * No chance of them being fair use I think - I've removed them from the article and nominated the lot for deletion - they're just images taken from published papers without the copyright holders permission. Mikenorton (talk) 09:18, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The image licensing issue seems to have been resolved. Care to finish this review? Fuebaey (talk) 19:37, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg I'm done with the review except for the images used in the article. Experienced editors who know about use of images needed to make sure they're free to use. 001Jrm (talk) 05:01, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Images are not okay. The website and apparently the program are CC-BY-NC, meaning they fall afoul of one of Wikipedia's licensing terms. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:19, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * My bad, I assumed Mike had removed all the invalid images. I've removed the last two because the images made on the website are licensed as CC-BY-NC-SA (Wikipedia doesn't accept non-commercial licenses without a fair use rationale). Guess someone needs to finish this review. Fuebaey (talk) 19:45, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Those were clearly made by the uploader, so I concentrated on the obvious copyvio - sorry not to look into those more closely. They should be easily redrawn on a free to use base, such as the NASA BlueMarble or similar through WorldWind. Mikenorton (talk) 20:09, 10 January 2015 (UTC)


 * Symbol voting keep.svg I'm just going to approve this based on 001Jrm review. If anyone thinks this is inappropriate, feel free to comment. Disclosure: I removed the last two images so there are now none left in the article. Fuebaey (talk) 01:31, 21 January 2015 (UTC)