Talk:Garden of Eden Ice Plateau
Latest comment: 1 year ago by SL93 in topic Did you know nomination
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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 SL93 (talk) 22:47, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
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- ... that the New Zealand Geographic Board originally rejected the name of the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau for being biblical in origin? Source: NZGB Gazetteer, "...initially the NZGB did not accept it and recommended that Pascoe find another name which had reference to classical mythology rather than a biblical name."
Created by Turnagra (talk). Self-nominated at 05:02, 2 January 2023 (UTC).
New, long enough, reads well (will make a couple tweaks myself). Sources are somewhat catalogue-y but support what you've written well. QPQ good. Few notes:
- Is it 2003 or 2014 when the Adams Wilderness Area was established?
- First paragraph of Geography may be missing final citation
- Second paragraph of Geography seems overly detailed - why describe so precisely these relatively small individual glaciers? Or is this standard with this kind of article
- Hook is fine but might be more interesting to say something like ALT1: ... that the Garden of Eden Ice Plateau is part of an ice field with many biblically named glaciers? (but phrased better)
- (P.S. to editors: I'm back editing Wikipedia after a longish break, so if I'm forgetting anything please let me know) Hameltion (talk, contribs)
- Oh also, the orphan tag is a concern but I expect you'll be on that in due time. Hameltion (talk, contribs) 17:52, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks, some good pickups there (and in your edits to the article itself) - as far as the detail on the small glaciers is concerned, I figured they may not be notable enough for their own articles so I wanted to give a little bit of detail on them in this article. Would also be happy with something along the lines of ALT1 if the preference was for that, but I felt that the original banning might add something more to it and make it more of a hook (why did they ban that? when did it get reversed? etc).
- I'll go through and make some further changes to the article now in line with your feedback!Turnagra (talk) 18:23, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
- I probably do prefer your original hook now that I think about it. Also might suggest removing red links from topics you don't think it's plausible to write an article about. Everything looks good though. Hameltion (talk, contribs) 17:08, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
