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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 Allen3 talk 15:33, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

The Blob (Pacific Ocean)

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  • ... that there's a "Blob" in the Pacific Ocean?

Created by AshLin (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). Nominated by Cwmhiraeth (talk) at 18:14, 29 April 2015 (UTC).

  • New enough and long enough. The hook is enticing. As the hook is only there to mention the existence of this anomaly, I must look at the referencing in the whole article. The sources from geographical papers are obviously fine, also from NatGeo. However, as a Brit, I can tell you that the Daily Mail has a reputation for pseudoscience and quackery, thus that reference should be removed and any of its claims be sourced to more reliable publications. There remains a citation needed tag about the prognosis of this Blob, quick searches of the sources showed no avail to "2015". Can you source where you got that prognosis from? I want to pass this hook with these improvements. '''tAD''' (talk) 22:06, 29 April 2015 (UTC)