Talk:2022 Bogoso explosion

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Did you know... that on 20 January 2022, a mining explosives truck detonated in Apiate, Ghana, damaging around 500 buildings and killing 13 people?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 21:05, 5 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

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... that on 20 January 2022, a mining explosives truck detonated in Apiate, Ghana, damaging around 500 buildings and killing 13 people (aftermath pictured)? Source: "The blast damaged around 500 surrounding houses" from: Bancroft, Holly (21 January 2022). "At least 17 dead after huge road explosion in western Ghana". The Independent. Retrieved 25 January 2022. and "At least 13 people were killed in a blast in western Ghana on Thursday after a motorcycle collided with a vehicle carrying explosives" from: CNN, Nimi Princewill, AnneClaire Stapleton, Stephanie Busari and Martin Goillandeau. "Almost entire town leveled after explosives delivery truck crash in Ghana". CNN. Retrieved 2022-01-21. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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- Comment: Was nominated at ITN but doesn't look like it will progress.

Created by Enock4seth (talk) and Dumelow (talk). Nominated by Dumelow (talk) at 08:44, 25 January 2022 (UTC).Reply

Dumelow, what a sorrowful article, written in a way that preserves respect for those impacted by the event. Everything else looks okay, but Earwig's is pulling a large amount of text from this article. Is this copied from Wikipedia, or the other way around? Urve (talk) 21:32, 3 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thanks Urve, I know they have copied from us because I remember writing the paragraph about the casualties and damage myself! To confirm, it was in the article by 28 January while the publication date of that GLitzEmpire article is 2 February. Cheers - Dumelow (talk) 21:42, 3 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Beautiful, thanks; the 2 February date gave me pause, but I wasn't sure if their software saw edits as a new publication. OK, QPQ is good, copyvio is resolved (disappointing that they copied from us), the citations for the hook and throughout the article are good and to reliable sources, neutral tone. I can't find a source that the image is appropriately licensed, though, and the uploader to commons does not appear to be the author of the image; unless that's resolved, I recommend that this be promoted without the image. Urve (talk) 22:16, 3 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

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