Talk:Potrok Aike

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A fact from Potrok Aike appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 September 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that there are rock paintings around Potrok Aike, a lake that is an important source of water in the region? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Potrok Aike.

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Found this review. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 12:23, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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 Darth Stabro talk 16:58, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• ... that there are rock paintings around Potrok Aike lake, an important source of water in the region?

• Source: [www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?pid=S1852-48262018000300003&script=sci_arttext "la laguna es una de las grandes fuentes de agua permanente de la Patagonia meridional""Las representaciones rupestres registradas en la cueva 1 y reparo"]

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Broc Rutter
• Comment: Returning to DYK after a long absence, hopefully I didn't miss anything important.

Improved to Good Article status by Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 160 past nominations.

Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:07, 30 July 2025 (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: All good here. Might want to clarify that the lake was an important source of water at the time the paintings were created. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:09, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure that this specification is necessary - as far as I know, its value as water source hasn't changed much over time. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 09:11, 2 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Photo please

It would be good to have this. Jontel (talk) 17:48, 10 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]