Template:Did you know nominations/Cerium

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 13:45, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Cerium[edit]

  • ... that cerium saved the writer Primo Levi's life in Auschwitz? Source: "The chapter 'Cerium' recounts how he found a store of alloy that could be whittled down to make lighter-flints and bartered for food. It was this that kept him alive." [1]

Improved to Good Article status by Double sharp (talk). Self-nominated at 15:05, 29 October 2016 (UTC).


  • No issues found with article, ready for human review.
    • This article was Listed as a Good Article on 09:16, 25 October 2016
    • This article meets the DYK criteria at 20027 characters
    • All paragraphs in this article have at least one citation
    • This article has no outstanding maintenance tags
    • A copyright violation is unlikely according to automated metrics (18.0% confidence; confirm)
      • Note to reviewers: There is low confidence in this automated metric, please manually verify that there is no copyright infringement or close paraphrasing. Note that this number may be inflated due to cited quotes and titles which do not constitute a copyright violation.
  • Some overall issues detected
    • The hook ALT0 is an appropriate length at 56 characters
    • Double sharp has more than 5 DYK credits. A QPQ review is required for this nomination.

Automatically reviewed by DYKReviewBot. This is not a substitute for a human review. Please report any issues with the bot. --DYKReviewBot (report bugs) 20:25, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

Promoted to GA on 25 October, so new enough. Certainly long enough. Within policy, well-written. Hook is certainly interesting and striking; it has a source which supports the claim. QPQ done. Should be good to go. Fantastic work. Yakikaki (talk) 17:38, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
  • There is one instance of close paraphrasing:
  • Source: The silvery white metal cerium is quite electropositive and reacts slowly with cold water and quite quickly with hot water to form cerium hydroxide, Ce(OH), and hydrogen gas (H2 ).
  • Article: Cerium is quite electropositive and reacts slowly with cold water and quite quickly with hot water to form cerium hydroxide:
  • Yoninah (talk) 23:55, 13 November 2016 (UTC)
  • Thank you. Close paraphrasing eliminated. Restoring tick per Yakikaki's review. Yoninah (talk) 11:21, 14 November 2016 (UTC)