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Voltairine de Cleyre
... that Voltairine de Cleyre(pictured), despite losing her ability to move or speak due to illness, refused to accept last rites by scowling at the priest?
... that Christmas: A Biography states that, despite its Christian origins, Christmas has been mostly secular since its inception in the fourth century?
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... that each Gamoja character piece is either the good or evil Gamoja of a set of twins? (self nom, sorry for the dodgy wording) Highway08:36, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
... that the Battle of Wuhan was the biggest ground battle in the entire Far East Theatre of the Second World War? --AQu01rius 14:50, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
... that Hansken the elephant, (pictured) toured many European countries in the 17th century, performing feats of 'intelligence', and was sketched by Rembrandt several times? -- article by ALoan, translated from de: from a suggestion by Phaedriel, nom by ++Lar: t/c15:37, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I don't think Reader's Digest keeps all its articles online. I have cited my source. Initially it was placed at wrong place, now I have moved it to correct place. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I am not sure of the publishing policies of Reader's Digest, but if it is of simultaneous release in all languages, then this can also be found in July 1992 edition of Reader's Digest. Quoting that would be better considering the fact that this is enwiki. The exact name of the story may be slightly different as I have just translated it from Hindi to English. — Ambuj Saxena (talk) 18:20, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. This is a pretty large claim, and a single reference in Readers Digest from 1992 is hardly a gold-plated, copper-bottomed citation. At the very least, I would have expected Shiprock, New Mexico to claim to be the origin, whether not the claim has a reputable origin. -- ALoan(Talk)20:39, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I proposed that the following should be included, unless a good reason can be found to exclude it. None of the objections below seem valid (as objections to DYK inclusion, although of course they are valid as suggestions for article improvement) SP-KP18:55, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Not quite accurate, the distribution and conservation sections only cover Britain, but they form only a small part of the article. You've rightly marked the article up with the worldwide view tag - I've also added the section-stub tag to those two sections. It sounds as though we might have different ideas about the type of article which could be included in DYK - are there some guidelines on this? SP-KP15:21, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
Yes I did read that, and I've also read the guide to layout, but thanks for mentioning that. Thanks also for pointing out that the taxobox doesn't count as part of the size calculation - I'd not realised that. However, I'm still not sure I understand why you think this doesn't qualify - if it's the size, how many characters short of the 1000 character threshold do you think the article is currently? I couldn't see any other reason in the DYK criteria why this might not qualify - the section-stub/lack of worldwide view issue isn't mentioned as far as I can see. SP-KP00:17, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
I currently see it as about 50 characters short of 1000. So really, only like one or two more sentences would be required. I'll try and see what I can come up with. ;-) --LV19:06, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
Well, it's over 1000 characters now. And I think the limited scope comes from the insect being limited to Britain. And I'm pretty sure that can be corrected. What better way to draw a wider audience than to feature it in DYK? ;-) --LV20:41, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
FYI, I've added some more facts to it (from a couple papers found on JSTOR)
I'm a little concerned about how much the article resembles this source. It's not quite copy-and-paste, though I think I'd still consider it close enough to be bordering on copyright infringement. Wiser/more experienced users may disagree with this assessment; it's not always easy to rewrite work. — Knowledge Seekerদ04:31, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
That's interesting, as I didn't use that as a principal source. The source I used was the book listed in the references section of the article, by Marshall & Haes, and initially I only added ARKive as an external link. For one or two of the more recent additions, I used ARKive as well as the original source, but I'm sure that I've not plundered it to the extent that I infringed copyright. Perhaps ARKive itself is the potential copyrgiht infringer? it does seem to contain text that is lifted out of Marshall & Haes in places. If there are specific passages you are worried about can you flag them up, and I'll see what I can to rework them. SP-KP14:47, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I think this doesn't qualify for DYK, because before the article was nominated here on the 20th, it seemed not that stubby. You can see the last edit before it was being edited here. Do other people agree? Highway21:16, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
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