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Lightbursttalk 04:03, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
New and long enough. Neutral. Suitably sourced. QPQ done. Earwig is clean. The hook talks about a landslide due to heavy rain, but this isn't backed up by the source, which says that the landslide happened "in rainy weather". The source does not give a reason for the slip. The image is freely licensed but not of the greatest quality. Hence, all it needs is an ALT1. Schwede66 07:25, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
That hook is factually correct but making is briefer also brings to the fore that it's a dead-boring fact. Can you try and come up with something a bit more exciting, please? Maybe the farmer trying to catch the train in time to prevent the incident from happening? Schwede66 21:34, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
Yup I agree with that. How about
ALT2: ... that in 1936, a dairy farmer unsuccessfully attempted to cut a signal wire to prevent a train from derailing as it approached a landslide in New Zealand?
ALT2 is good to go. I've done some minor formatting tweaks of that hook. Schwede66 23:38, 2 October 2023 (UTC)