Talk:Paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands

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Did you know... that the paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (fossil pictured) has a notable mixture of both temperate and subtropical plants?

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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 SL93 (talk) 01:30, 10 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Macginitiea gracilis leaf fossil

... that the Paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (fossil pictured) has been referred to as "Eocene Orchards"? Source: Wehr & hopkins 1994, DeVore & Pigg 2007
- ALT1: ... that the Paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands are mostly compression floras (fossil pictured), but chert, coal, and amber are also present? Source: Pigg & DeVore 2016, Archibald et al. 2018
- ALT2: ... that the Paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (fossil pictured) has a noted mixture of both temperate and tropical plants? Source: West et al., 2020
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Waukesha Biota

Moved to mainspace by Kevmin (talk). Self-nominated at 17:06, 10 October 2022 (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: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Kevmin: Great article. Im going to assume good faith on the offline sources and approve the nomination. Onegreatjoke (talk) 13:26, 13 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Kevmin: I was going to promote ALT2, but I couldn't find a citation for the notion that the mixture of plants is "noted" – could you point me in the right direction? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 23:12, 29 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Per West et al. (2020) Okanagan Highlands floras are broadly similar in floristic composition, comprised of a high diversity of plant genera typical of modern temperate deciduous and subtropical evergreen forests (DeVore and Pigg, 2010; Smith et al., 2012; Gushulak et al., 2016; Lowe et al., 2018).--Kev min § 15:20, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Then how about:

ALT2a: ... that the Paleoflora of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands (fossil pictured) has a noted mixture of both temperate and subtropical plants?

since that's what the reference actually says? -- RoySmith (talk) 14:18, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that is what I should have written initially for the hook, I didn't catch that I had dropped the sub from subtropical when I wrote out the nomination. My apologies--Kev min § 14:36, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Onegreatjoke can you approve ALT2a? -- RoySmith (talk) 16:24, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@RoySmith:

sorry for not approving earlier. Onegreatjoke (talk) 16:30, 9 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]