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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 HalfGig talk 13:36, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Wasp Branch

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  • ... that Wasp Branch is designated as a Coldwater Fishery, Migratory Fishery and Class A Wild Trout Waters and is used as a High-Quality Coldwater Fishery and a Migratory Fishery?

Moved to mainspace by Jakec (talk). Self nominated at 21:15, 21 December 2014 (UTC).

  • Another easy GTG. I do have a question, though. What is the significance of saying that
A 1973 survey discovered no members of the Pteronarcyidae species Pteronarcys biloba on Wasp Branch.
If these were wasps, I'd understand. But they're not. EEng (talk) 03:56, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
I happened to notice it while doing a Google search and figured it couldn't hurt to throw it in. --Jakob (talk) 00:53, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
  • I've pulled this from the prep area. There is no major issue, but I wanted to make sure there was time for discussion, rather than things been done against a clock. The hook confuses me slightly: I found the repetition of "Coldwater Fishery" and "Migratory Fishery" clunky, especially given the capital letters. I read the article, and then the PA DEP documents, and I can't work out what the difference between a designation and the existing use is? Is there a relevance to the repetition, or is this just bureaucracy? Either way, I don't find the hook at all interesting: a river is used for fishing, and has official designations relevant to that. Shock. Harrias talk 21:52, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
As the reviewer, I have to say I agree about the clunkiness and non-interstingness, but the fact is we gave up on hooks being "interesting" long ago. I would welcome a new effort to start enforcing that, and even have ideas for how that would work procedurally. EEng (talk) 22:22, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
@Harrias and EEng: Coldwater Fishery, Migratory Fishery, and all those others are official designations, not descriptions, hence the capitalization. This explains the difference between designated and existing uses. If the hook is too long, ALT1: ... that Wasp Branch is designated as a Coldwater Fishery, Migratory Fishery and Class A Wild Trout Waters? --Jakob (talk) 16:16, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
  • GTG for ALT1 as well. EEng (talk) 02:13, 17 January 2015 (UTC)