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A fact from 2021 Turkish floods appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 September 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that more than 400 millimetres (16 in) of rain was recorded in northern Turkey on 11 August 2021, causing catastrophic flooding?

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

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In the news[edit]

I believe the fires were featured on the 'in the news' section, should this be nominated too? I'm not familiar with ITN nominations. Uness232 (talk) 19:47, 17 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I may be wrong but I suspect too late for ITN now - but if you are quick you could try "do you know" Chidgk1 (talk) 05:52, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The news is also busy with Afghanistan and the Haiti quake. --Kathy262 (talk) 07:19, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oh right, might nominate for DYK when it's no longer a current event then. Uness232 (talk) 07:23, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

If you are going to nominate for DYK you need to do it now not wait, as there is a short time limit.Chidgk1 (talk) 07:58, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Alright, will try. Thanks for the info. Uness232 (talk) 10:52, 18 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 06:04, 27 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that on 11 August 2021, more than 400 millimetres (16 in) of rain was recorded in northern Turkey, causing catastrophic flooding? Source: [1] (In Turkish, but it does confirm that 420 kg/m2 - equivalent to mm - of rain did accumulate in Mamatlar village in Bozkurt, Kastamonu.)
- ALT1:... that the 2021 Turkey floods almost completely wiped out the village of Babaçay, Sinop? Source: [2]
- ALT2:... that the 2021 Turkey floods destroyed at least six bridges, inundated power plants, and caused the infrastructure of numerous towns to collapse? Source: [3][4]
- ALT3:... that Turkish Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu described the severe floods in northern Turkey as the worst he has ever seen? Source: [5]

Comment: I'm below 5 DYK credits, so a review should not be compulsory, but if I do review something during this process, I can add it if needed.

Created by Chidgk1 (talk). Nominated by Uness232 (talk) at 13:27, 18 August 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Y Article is long enough (7950 characters), new enough (created 14 August, nominated 18 August), and article is within policy (AGF on Turkish-language sources, but they look to be fine)
Y ALT0, ALT2 & ALT3 are all short enough, interesting, in the article and well cited (AGF on Turkish language source for ALT0, though it appears to check out, bearing in mind that 1 kg/m2 = 1mm). ALT1 isn't interesting to a general reader in my opinion, as people won't have heard of the place, so hard to tell whether it's that unusual/important or not. I have added a convert to ALT0 to convert mm to inches (as this is standard on Wikipedia and DYK hooks to do so), and in ALT2, I changed 6 to six, as per MOS:NUMERAL: Integers from zero to nine are spelled out in words
Y The nominator is exempt from QPQ, as they have 0 previous completed nominations, according to the tool
Overall this nomination passes, congratulations (AGF on offline sources). Joseph2302 (talk) 09:13, 21 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

To T:DYK/P7