Talk:Australian meat substitution scandal
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Cielquiparle in topic Did you know nomination
 | A fact from Australian meat substitution scandal appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 March 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- 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 Cielquiparle (talk) 10:24, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
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- ... that in 1981, the Australian meat substitution scandal of exporting kangaroo meat as beef to the United States led to jokes about "skippy burgers"? Source: By 15 August, the press in Australia and the United States had begun to probe and report on the "Meat Substitution Scandal" and the joke of skippy burgers was born." https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6163344/skippy-meat-scandal-became-global-joke/
Created by Jpatokal (talk). Self-nominated at 05:16, 22 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Australian meat substitution scandal; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
- I'll review. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 01:03, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
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- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
- but he suggested the substituted meat was freely available in Victoria and much of the east coast of Australia
This is pulled verbatim from the Canberra Times article (How they fed us donkey burgers) but isn't quoted.
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See above; otherwise, this is an interesting hook and article, and I think it's great for DYK. If you're willing to consider it, we could use some more hooks for April Fools', and this article certainly has some great opportunities. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 01:07, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
- @MyCatIsAChonk: Not the nominator but I corrected that bit of paraphrasing and expanded the article a little. I also have a quirky alt hook that might work for April Fool's:
- ALT1:... that "Slaughtergate" involved substituting kangaroo meat for beef?
- ALT2:... that Nixon's "Slaughtergate" scandal involved selling kangaroo meat as beef?
- The Nixon in question is an Australian politician, but the similarity is as funny now as it was to media outlets at the time. BuySomeApples (talk) 08:26, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
@BuySomeApples: Amazing, thanks for fixing it up and proposing the April Fools' ALTs. If it's ok with Jpatokal, I'll add this to the April Fools' DYK page. Approving all hooks, especially ALT1 and ALT2 for April Fools'. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 14:58, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
- That's hilarious! By all means please use the ALT2 Nixon hook. Re: the quoting from the Canberra Times article, guilty as charged but looks like BuySomeApples was already kind enough to fix this up. Jpatokal (talk) 12:05, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
- @MyCatIsAChonk: Not the nominator but I corrected that bit of paraphrasing and expanded the article a little. I also have a quirky alt hook that might work for April Fool's:
