Talk:Sydney asbestos crisis
Latest comment: 7 months ago by AirshipJungleman29 in topic Did you know nomination
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Name of article
edit"Asbestos mulch crisis" seems to be the media's preferred term, but open to better ideas. "Scandal" might work, "disaster" seems a bit overblown. Jpatokal (talk) 00:48, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
- I get better search results on "Sydney Asbestos Crisis". I'd suggest per WP:COMMONNAME that's what the article name should be. TarnishedPathtalk 04:44, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
- The article has been moved. Jpatokal (talk) 20:42, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 15:57, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
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Warning sign for asbestos-contaminated mulch in Sydney
- ... that the Sydney asbestos crisis started when a child brought home handfuls of mulch from a playground? Source: "In January, an Australian child innocently brought home a couple of handfuls of garden mulch from near a playground in Sydney's inner west. Looking at the mulch, the child's parent was horrified to spot what looked like chunks of bonded asbestos. Their call to authorities has since revealed a contamination crisis..."[1]
Created by Jpatokal (talk). Self-nominated at 05:39, 24 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Sydney asbestos crisis; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
References
- ^ Turnbull, Tiffanie (19 February 2024). "Sydney asbestos scare: How a mulch discovery has sent a city scrambling". BBC News. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
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7th nom, so not required to do 2:1 QPQs. Cool that you got an image of one of the closures, although I'm not sure how interesting it'd be on the Main Page; but, up to the promoter. This is a good article, and if you keep it updated as the story develops and maintain this level of quality, it could eventually be a capital-G Good Article. It also cites someone named Tamsin, which, to be honest, would have made this an automatic pass regardless. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe) 05:53, 11 March 2024 (UTC)