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A fact from 2024 Alaska Air Fuel Douglas C-54 crash appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 June 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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.
Note — Topic was previously deemed non-notable, see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2024 Alaska Air Fuel Douglas C-54 crash. Current consensus ties notability of articles on aviation crashes to lasting impact. The only thing that's moved the needle since the AFD is the release of the NTSB final report, followed by a small handful of stories from aviation-specific outlets who would customarily react to something like a NTSB final report. A link to the AFD was left as an AFC comment. As the reviewer is not an admin, it would appear they simply ignored it and passed this into article space anyway, seeing as how the deleted version wasn't available to compare to this. Likewise, it wasn't available to me to determine if this version is eligible for speedy deletion under G4. This DYK nomination appeared immediately after it was passed into article space by the AFC reviewer. This suggests that the use of AFC constituted forum-shopping to bypass the AFD outcome, with hat collecting being the ultimate goal, not expanding our assortment of notable topics. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 06:26, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
The article was first deleted at the AfD due to no proof of continued coverage. Since then, however, there are at least [1][2][3][4][5] five articles from around a year after the crash with significant coverage, and several other articles on the subject within the first month. I do get your point that all these were in reaction to the NTSB final report and were released by aviation news sources or Alaskan new sources, but it is not like they cover every news story regardless of actual notability; they don't have an article corresponding to every NTSB report. This article was built up from the ground and is not based on the original. I used the AfC process here specifically because it was deleted and I wanted to have another pair of eyes look over the article to see if they also thought it was notable. (I would not have made this article if I didn't think it was notable and I believe this meets general notability guideline.). Can you also link the "current consensus" that aviation accident articles must have lasting effects? There is precedent through several AfDs, but as far as I'm aware, no unified discussion has officially established this as consensus. RandomInfinity17 (talk - contributions) 22:04, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Article is new enough, well-sourced, and continuing coverage negates the concerns above. No QPQs needed. Earwig notes some close paraphrasing on a few phrases [6], though the NTSP source is public domain. I would recommend rewording the hooks to say "fuel transport aircraft", if that is fine with you RandomInfinity17; all aircraft carry fuel, after all. Preference for the hookiness of ALT0. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs19:41, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Article is new enough, well-sourced, and continuing coverage negates the concerns above. No QPQs needed. Earwig notes some close paraphrasing on a few phrases [6], though the NTSP source is public domain. I would recommend rewording the hooks to say "fuel transport aircraft", if that is fine with you RandomInfinity17; all aircraft carry fuel, after all. Preference for the hookiness of ALT0. ~Darth StabroTalk • Contribs 19:41, 26 May 2025 (UTC)