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Valdez Creek

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• ... that despite being mined since the early 20th century, the mother lode for Valdez Creek has not been found?

• Source 1: Jane Suhey's MsC thesis, https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/handle/11122/14973, pages 11-12
• Source 2: Geologic Report RB04EXE-1, Avalon Development Corp., https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1023109/000113717104001167/georeport.htm, pages iv & 33

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5x expanded by Subarcticsensing (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Subarcticsensing (talk) 19:37, 20 December 2024 (UTC).

• @Subarcticsensing: New enough (expansion started Dec 13), long enough, no QPQ needed. However, this slightly falls short of a 5x expansion: the revision from before your expansion was 927 B, compared to the current revision with 4333 B, which is only about 4.6x expanded. If you are able to expand the article a bit more, I will approve this. Furthermore, I slightly question the sourcing of the hook fact—per WP:SCHOLARSHIP, masters theses are usually not reliable, unless they have been cited a lot. A different source will probably be needed. Hook itself is interesting, and article is otherwise quite well-done. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 21:55, 20 December 2024 (UTC)
  • @Vigilantcosmicpenguin: Thanks for the feedback and quick turnaround. I did some more expansions on what I could do tonight, so it's at 5312 chars for now. I added another source from Avalon Development Corp. in the lead dated in 2004, which is saying that there's strong evidence for more gold that hasn't been found. Could play with the wording on the first iteration. Most sources I've been through have said things along the line of "there is strong evidence for more gold" but none have gone so far to say that it hasn't been found, which I understand as authors hedging their bets on if it actually exists. The citation that Suhey uses is from 1981, so it's a bit dated, and the other citation that they give doesn't seem to be published yet. Subarcticsensing (talk) 03:53, 21 December 2024 (UTC)