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A fact from 2020–2022 catalytic converter theft ring appeared on Wikipedia's
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Queen of Hearts,
CommissarDoggo, and
Epicgenius: CommissarDoggo is qpq exempt but I have I donated a qpq anyway. The article was 5x expanded and the hook is interesting and cited in the article - in two separate spots. It is sourced, cited and neutral. No image has been offered here, Before I can continue with a review we need to address quite a bit of
WP:CLOPsee here.
Lightburst (
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02:04, 20 February 2024 (UTC)reply
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Lightburst: Thanks for pointing this out, over the past couple hours I managed to reduce similarity to 65% on the HuffPost source, most of which is now down to either quotes or facts. Same goes for another source used across the article, Bloomberg, which I reduced to 79%. At this point I'd welcome an independent editor to rewrite sections to reduce it further, as I'm drawing blanks on where else I can do so.
CommissarDoggoTalk?15:14, 20 February 2024 (UTC)reply
With respect to my co-nominators, I think some sentences can be further rewritten. Although much of the text Earwig flagged is direct quotes, there are also phrases like "showed Curtis the ins and outs" and "in December 2019 the price of rhodium stood at $6,000" that aren't just stating simple facts. I'll have a go at rephrasing these later.
Epicgenius (
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15:24, 20 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Some clop has been reduced for matches with the first two results. It only shows quote matches now. But the third source {Huffpost} shows some clop that needs attention.
Lightburst (
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15:52, 22 February 2024 (UTC)reply
Since there's been a lapse of a couple weeks here, I'll jump in and re-review. Close paraphrasing has been sufficiently reduced, I think; article remains DYK-eligible as of the time of submission; article and hook remain sourced, cited, and neutral. Hook is interesting, article is fascinating. Good to go. This one's for you, Vami. ezlev (
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18:58, 14 March 2024 (UTC)reply
What a great article. I really want to promote it, but I'm getting stuck on the wording of the hook. How do we know that it generated $545 million in revenue? NBC News suggests the U.S. Justice Department is seeking to recover $545 million (which suggests $545 million was generated but is a little different), while HuffPost says that DG Auto received $545 million from two companies (but isn't it possible some of that revenue was "legitimate"?). Somehow the hook seems too "concrete". @
Vami IV,
Queen of Hearts,
Epicgenius, and
CommissarDoggo: Would you be willing to reword or propose some ALT hooks?
Cielquiparle (
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11:59, 17 March 2024 (UTC)reply
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Cielquiparle: To clarify, the forfeiture the government was looking for was in regards to how much money Dowa Metals and Mining America (a single company that operates as the US branch of
Dowa Holdings, Japan) provided to DG Auto Parts for the precious metal dust they received from DG Auto Parts' operation. This is also noted here:
https://archive.ph/20231218000134/https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-catalytic-converter-theft-ring/ - There was still the matter of DG Auto’s refiner, which investigators had identified early on as the source of the money—all $545 million they ultimately counted—that had passed through DG Auto’s operation: Dowa Metals & Mining America, in Burlington, New Jersey.
As for the Huffpost source, the source says From October 2019 to October 2022, Vang Auto sold $38 million worth of converters to DG Auto. Over that span, DG Auto received $545 million from Dowa Metals and Mining America. Those are two separate entities, with Vang Auto being a catalytic converter theft operation in California. Those are also two separate figures, with Vang Auto selling $38m worth of stolen catalytic converters to DG Auto Parts, who would then decan them and send the precious metal dust to Dowa Metals and Mining America.
While yes it is true that some of the money gained through these sales to Dowa Metals and Mining America were from legitimate sources of catalytic converters (there were several mentions to this in sources - I think I mentioned some from Bloomberg and from Huffpost but I could be wrong - from people either willing or unwilling to mention their names due to the unwanted attention they may receive), the large majority of the sales were from illegitimate sources.
CommissarDoggoTalk?12:28, 17 March 2024 (UTC)reply
Seasons
I see some overlinks to seasons, which should be changed to months if possible given the global audience (see
MOS:SEASONS). Would that be possible before it hits the Main Page? Best, Sdkb talk17:32, 20 February 2024 (UTC)reply
It is sometimes strange to think about, I will admit. It was only a couple of paragraphs, some references, an image and some notes when Vami left it. He probably would've come back to it the next day, then the next and the next until it was done, likely to a quality that would've had it as an FA within a fortnight; yet another 4 Award.
I, like many others, would have loved to see what Vami might have done with it given the time, though I hope he would have at least been proud of what it is today.
CommissarDoggoTalk?00:05, 21 March 2024 (UTC)reply