Talk:Seal Rescue Ireland

A fact from Seal Rescue Ireland appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 March 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Seal Rescue Ireland comforts orphaned seal pups with fake mothers made of wetsuits?

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Latest comment: 2 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 09:36, 21 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

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... that Seal Rescue Ireland comforts orphaned seal pups with fake mothers made out of wetsuits? Source: https://www.thejournal.ie/seal-rescue-ireland-wetsuit-mums-5146621-Jul2020/
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Vanessa Bryant

Created by 212.129.74.207 (talk). Nominated by BuySomeApples (talk) at 18:59, 19 February 2022 (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: Looks good overall, new enough, long enough and seems neutral. Hook is interesting. Sufficiently sourced. The last line needs slight copy-edit to avoid close paraphrasing. Grandmaster 00:23, 20 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the review @Grandmaster:! I've copyedited the article to reduce paraphrasing. Let me know if it needs anything else to get it ready

. BuySomeApples (talk) 03:50, 20 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Wonderful! The article is good to go. Grandmaster 09:46, 20 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

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