Talk:Bathypolypus sponsalis

A fact from Bathypolypus sponsalis appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that because the globose octopus Bathypolypus sponsalis lives at great depths, it has large eggs, reduced gills, and no ink sac?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Bathypolypus sponsalis.

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 12 January 2021 and 23 April 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kvboyette. Peer reviewers: DSlaich.

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Did you know nomination

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 MeegsC (talk) 09:32, 26 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Bathypolypus sponsalis is a deep sea benthic octopus that has very interesting physical adaptions in order to help it survive in such a harsh environment?
- ALT1:... that ...? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)

Created/expanded by Kvboyette (talk). Self-nominated at 18:26, 29 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

This appears to have been moved to mainspace on March 17th and not nominated for DYK until March 29, making it ineligible because it missed the 7 day deadline. This is quite unfortunate, because it looks like a really nice article. Might I suggest nominating it for WP:GAN instead? It would probably pass the GA criteria (and once being declared GA, could then be re-nominated for DYK (as long as the nomination is done in 7 days of passing GA). If I've missed something, please let me know and I'll be glad to review this. -- RoySmith (talk) 01:10, 10 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Although RoySmith is technically correct and this nomination was made out of time, this expansion was done by a student editor who would not have known the DYK criteria and I am going to approve it. It may also please @Kvboyette: to have the article appear on the main page where it is likely to garner several thousand page views. The article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral, and I detected no copyright issues. No QPQ is needed. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:07, 22 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not so sure about the hook. Very interesting according to whom? SL93 (talk) 11:39, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

SL93 (talk) 11:50, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

How about spelling out the adaptations? Something like this › Mortee _talk 19:01, 24 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1: ... that because the globose octopus, Bathypolypus sponsalis, lives in such deep water, it has large eggs, reduced gills, and no ink sac?

@Cwmhiraeth: What do you think of ALT1? SL93 (talk) 01:16, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1a: ... that because the globose octopus Bathypolypus sponsalis lives in such deep water, it has large eggs, reduced gills, and no ink sac?

Approving ALT1, but I think it is better as ALT1a with the direct link to the article. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:05, 25 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]