Template:Did you know nominations/Flying river

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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:47, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Flying river

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  • ... that the 2014 drought in southern Brazil is believed to be due to the failure of the flying rivers?

Created by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self nominated at 12:04, 15 November 2014 (UTC).

  • Oh this is something else. Can we have it for April Fools day? Or would you rather run now? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:42, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
April Fool's Day is many months away. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:15, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
  • And waiting is still within policy. So you want this run now? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:25, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
In September there was said to be a serious drought. I don't know if that persists, but I would prefer to run the hook now as it may be less relevant in April. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:20, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

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General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice snappy intriguing hook at 113 characters. Foreign language source accepted in good faith. No pic in article.Georgejdorner (talk) 16:41, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

I did some copyediting to remove the close paraphrasing. Yoninah (talk) 20:09, 15 November 2014 (UTC)