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Review: January 9, 2025. (Reviewed version).

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Did you know nomination

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... that an emu named Emmanuel Todd Lopez was the target of a death hoax by undercover journalists?

Source: "Why an Israeli Black Ops Team Had to Kill Emmanuel the Emu", Haaretz

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Zhao Chongguo

Created by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 25 past nominations.

— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 05:29, 3 January 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: New enough (created on 3 January) and long enough (4937 characters); Sourced, neutral, and free of plagiarism (Earwig says that a violation is unlikely, and didn't find any myself); Hook is cited (source behind a paywall, But the headline and blurb are accessible) and interesting; No pics; QPQ provided.

Approving this with a slight modification to the hook, that is, wikilinking emu - ALT0a:"... that an emu named Emmanuel Todd Lopez was the target of a death hoax by undercover journalists?".

Another hook could be ALT1: "Emmanuel has been described as "arguably the world's most famous emu"? "Source: (Washington Post) The wording on ALT1 is somewhat clunky, so I'd prefer ALT0a. AmateurHi$torian (talk) 21:21, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If we go with ALT1, I would like it to use the full name "Emmanuel Todd Lopez" because I think it's funnier that way. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 21:29, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Based on the title of that article, I think this could be another funny alt hook:
ALT2: ... that an emu was targeted by an Israeli black ops team?

Di (they-them) (talk) 18:42, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vigilantcosmicpenguin, with ALT2 in mind, would you be willing to save this for WP:DYKAPRIL? ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:43, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As funny as that would be, I don't think ALT2 would be an acceptable hook. "Israeli black ops team" is a quote from the title of a news article; there's nothing else in the source that would actually support the phrasing "black ops team". So I can't really say that statement in wikivoice. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 17:30, 16 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

Passed. — Ghost River 17:03, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Emmanuel (emu)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk · contribs) 03:26, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: GhostRiver (talk · contribs) 20:55, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm GhostRiver. I'll be reviewing this article against the good article criteria. By doing so, I am earning points for the WikiCup and the January 2025 GAN Backlog Drive. Although a quid pro quo review is not necessary, it is appreciated. You can see what open good article nominations I have here.

I will go through the article section by section checking it against the criteria. Once I have finished my review, I will place the article on hold, giving you seven days to respond. If you need more time, just reach out! While I'll always put the article on hold once it's ready for you to look at, you may start making changes before I complete my review. — Ghost River 20:55, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@GhostRiver: Forgot to ping earlier; I have addressed your comments. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 20:44, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Made a wording change and it looks good. Passing now. — Ghost River 17:02, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()

3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()

Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Infobox and lede

don't need the age template in the lede, only in the infobox
- Right. fixed.
link emu in lede
- Done
link "gone viral" to viral phenomenon
- Done
often involving the phrase "Emmanuel, don't do it!" Two notes here. First, there should be a comma after the word "phrase". Second, unclear from this sentence who is saying the sentence. Context clues are good, clarity is even better.
- Rephrased to to which Blake often responds, "Emmanuel, don't do it!"
She moved onto her family's farm in 2021 and set up a TikTok account for it. → After moving onto her family's farm in 2021, she established a TikTok account for the site.
- Done
combine two sentences into something like: That month, Blake made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, while Emmanuel was the target of a death hoax.
- Done
When the emu got ill in October 2022, Blake initially believed he had avian influenza before determining that he was reacting to stress. → Three months later, Emu had an avian influenza scare that was ultimately diagnosed as a stress reaction.
- Not done. I think it's more precise to specify that Blake is the one who said it, as her tweets were the main point of coverage.

Life and career

She began filming with the farm's animals in 2018. She and her girlfriend moved to the farm from Los Angeles in 2021 to help her grandparents with the farm. → She began filming content with the farm's animals in 2018, and in 2021, Blake and her girlfriend moved from Los Angeles to Florida to help her grandparents with Knuckle Bump Farms.
- Done, but kept as two sentences.
initially focusing on the cattle
- Done
Blake's grandmother adopted two emus, Emmanuel and Ellen, in 2015. The emus do not get along. → In 2015, Blake's grandmother adopted two emus, Emmanuel and Ellen, who do not get along with each other.
- Done
would actually move the sentence about the emus to right after the first sentence, because then those two lines are about the animals on the farm before we move into talking about Blake
- Makes sense, done.
restructure second paragraph so that we start with the first video about Emmanuel and then move into the videos writ large
- Done
move the third paragraph ("Blake has explained that Emmanuel's behavior...") and the last paragraph ("Emmanuel got sick in October 2022") to a separate section called "Reactions" or something similar, as those two paras deal with the overall response to the emu and should be linked
- Done, good call.
some MOS:LQ issues throughout - unless you're writing out a whole sentence of a quote, the period or comma goes outside the quotation marks
- Fixed, should've proofread better.
got sick → fell ill
- Done
link "pathologists" to veterinary pathology
- Done
risked transmission of the disease.
- Done
link first instance of "tweets" or "tweeted" to Twitter
- Linked to Tweet (social media)
if you can find a reliable source, I'd add a sentence about Emmanuel's first video post-bird flu scare in November
- I can't find any RSes that mention this.

References and links

References [1] (WaPo), [4] (LA Times), and [9] (NYT) should all have the "|url-access=limited" parameter added to the end
- Done
Alphabetize the categories
- Done

General comments

No stability concerns, nominator is significant contributor
No photos, criterion 6 does not apply
Copyvio score looks good, only flag is a direct quote

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.