Talk:September 2023 southwestern U.S. floods

A fact from September 2023 southwestern U.S. floods appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 October 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that at least 73,000 attendees were stranded at Burning Man because of the September 2023 southwestern U.S. floods?

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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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 22:26, 28 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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[[File:|140px|A rainfall map from the National Weather Service for the September 2023 Southwestern U.S. floods. ]]

A rainfall map from the National Weather Service for the September 2023 Southwestern U.S. floods.

... that during the September 2023 southwestern U.S. floods, flooding occurred during Burning Man, stranding at least 73,000 attendees? Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/burning-man-death-investigation-70000-stranded-nevada-desert-flooding/
- ALT1: ... that during the September 2023 southwestern U.S. floods, Diplo and Chris Rock fled Burning Man after the festival's location was flooded? Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/burning-man-rains-mud/story?id=102886032
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/WFYI (TV)
- Comment: Flood event. Feel free to let me know if the hooks need clarity as they aren't perfect, but I'll see if I can come up with other ones or fix them if the two hooks above have issues.

Created by Tails Wx (talk). Self-nominated at 02:35, 5 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/September 2023 southwestern U.S. floods; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 13:45, 23 September 2023 (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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Appears to meet all the criteria. I think the first hook is better. BeanieFan11 (talk) 14:07, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Las Vegas map

This map was being presented as rainfall totals from September 1-2, but at [1], if I click on "historical" then set the start and end dates to September 1 and September 3 at midnight, I get much lower totals. The original tweet calls it "monsoon totals across the valley"; the monsoon in Vegas starts around early July and in 2023 included Hurricane Hilary. Also, the basemap is Google Maps terrain view, so it's not public domain, even if the NWS additions are. It might be possible to regenerate a free version from the WRH link provided above, but I'm not sure which of the basemaps there are free; the "USA topographic" one certainly is, but damn is it ugly. In any case, the totals are less impressive. Suffusion of Yellow (talk) 03:10, 10 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I had nominated that image for speedy image as a copyright violation; and has been deleted since. The best bet for now is to add the MPD (mesoscale precipitation discussion) image by the Weather Prediction Center to the infobox. Tails Wx 00:19, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]