Talk:Mount Moulton

A fact from Mount Moulton appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 September 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that ice almost half a million years old has been found on a mountain named after a sled dog driver?

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 22:21, 9 November 2007 (UTC)Reply

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:25, 9 September 2019 (UTC)Reply

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... that ice almost half a million years old has been found on a mountain named after a dog driver?"The Mount Moulton blue ice site contains ice that is close to 500 ky old"," Mount Moulton is named for Richard S. Moulton, chief dog driver with the 1939-1941 U.S. Antarctic Service Expedition, which visited the west end of Flood Range in December 1940. "

5x expanded by Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk). Self-nominated at 19:27, 26 August 2019 (UTC).Reply

Hi Jo-Jo Eumerus, you need to specify your QPQ. Gog the Mild (talk) 20:10, 26 August 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Gog the Mild:Here it is; I didn't have time yesterday for a review so I did put this nomination up before the QPQ. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 09:21, 27 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

I am being picky, but could we have a cite directly after the semi colon ending "The volcano is named for Richard S. Moulton, chief dog driver of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition;"?

Sure, done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 12:29, 27 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Good to go Gog the Mild (talk) 12:15, 27 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

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