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A fact from Spring Lake (King County, Washington) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 March 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Spring Lake has suffered from an infestation of Eurasian water milfoil, a noxious weed?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Spring Lake (King County, Washington).

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Bruxton talk 21:35, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... ~~that there is a 370-acre (150-hectare) park between Spring Lake and Lake Desire, consisting of former timber land?~~ Source: https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dnrp/nature-recreation/parks-recreation/king-county-parks/natural-working-lands/spring-lake
- ALT1: ... ~~that the 900-foot (270-meter) tall Echo Peak lies between Spring Lake and Lake Desire, offering views of both?~~ Source: https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/spring-lake-lake-desire-park-echo-mountain
https://kingcounty.gov/en/dept/dnrp/nature-recreation/parks-recreation/king-county-parks/natural-working-lands/spring-lake
- ALT2: ... that Spring Lake has suffered from an infestation of Eurasian water milfoil, a noxious weed? Source: https://your.kingcounty.gov/dnrp/library/water-and-land/lakes/spring-lake/spring-lake-aquatic-weed-final-report-2011.pdf
- Reviewed:
- Comment: Equally happy with any of the three hooks, even though they focus on different aspects

Created by DirtyHarry991 (talk). Self-nominated at 04:22, 24 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Spring Lake (King County, Washington); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[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: None required.

Overall:

ALT2 only approved; the others are not that interesting. Short article, but acceptable at 1.8kb. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:20, 15 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]