Template:Did you know nominations/Driving in Madagascar
- 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 Trainsandotherthings (talk) 16:20, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
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Driving in Madagascar
The interior of a crowded taxi brousse.
- ... that in taxi brousses, one of the main ways to drive in Madagascar, assistant drivers sometimes hang from the sides of the vehicle if they are too crowded (crowding pictured)? Source: Wulf, Volker; Misaki, Kaoru; Randall, Dave; Rohde, Markus (2018). "Travelling by Taxi Brousse in Madagascar. An Investigation into Practices of Overland Transportation" (PDF). Media in Action. University of Siegen. doi:10.25969/mediarep/16218. Retrieved 2023-01-19.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/P. Kodanda Rao
- Comment: We finally filled the canonical red link example at Wikipedia:Red link! Please hold off on reviewing for a little bit until coäuthors have had the chance to propose alt-hooks if they want.[Coauthor 1]
Moved to mainspace by Tamzin (talk), Red-tailed hawk (talk), and PerfectSoundWhatever (talk). Nominated by Tamzin (talk) at 22:29, 20 January 2023 (UTC).
Coauthor comments
- ^ (I'm fine with Tamzin's hook)— Red-tailed hawk (nest) 22:50, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
- I was a pretty small contributor to this; great job to the other authors for whipping this up. I'll suggest a couple of hooks, fine with the original of course:
- ALT1 ... that two-thirds of roads in Madagascar are in poor condition, impeding driving in the country? [1]
- ALT2 ... that, due to bandits, convoys of 10 or more vehicles are required on some roads when driving in Madagascar? [2]
- — PerfectSoundWhatever (t; c) 00:10, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
A very cool new and long enough article about an otherwise unknown topic~ Hooks cited, I prefer ALT2 because it is the most unusual, ALT0 is quite typical for most of shared taxis in developing world and ALT1 is rather pedestrian. Earwig turns out fine and QPQ provided. I have one concern that some editors might argue this should be merged to Transport in Madagascar but i'll assume it is notable enough to have standalone article.Nyanardsan (talk) 21:55, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
