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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 07:15, 18 January 2017 (UTC)

Lake Corcoran

• ... that the Central Valley of California once may have been a large lake?

• Reviewed: Guendolen Plestcheeff

Moved to mainspace by Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk). Self-nominated at 11:11, 26 December 2016 (UTC).

This appears okay to promote. Full review:

• Hook: is short enough, NPOV, and interesting
• NPOV: article is NPOV
• Sourcing: source is inline cited to PaleoBios, a publication of the University of California [1]
• Plagiarism: Earwig indicates copyvio "very unlikely"
• Image: none
• QPQ: done - Template:Did you know nominations/Guendolen Plestcheeff
• Newness: yes, article created December 24
• Length: yes
• General policies: all other general policies relevant to DYK are met

DarjeelingTea ( talk) 09:45, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Reading the article, it seems to me that a large lake once occupied the Central Valley, the doubt is about how large the lake was. If this is right, perhaps we should have ALT1. Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 19:54, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

• ... that a large lake once occupied the Central Valley of California?

  That works as well, no opinion as to which is better. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 00:10, 17 January 2017 (UTC)