Talk:Dan Pashman

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The result was: promoted by Rjjiii talk 03:31, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

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Cascatelli pasta

• ... that Dan Pashman spent three years working on a new pasta shape which he called Cascatelli (pictured), after the Italian word for waterfall?

• Source: "Add cascatelli — inspired by the Italian word for waterfall, cascata — to your pasta vocabulary and your pantry. This new pasta shape was invented after three years of research and development by Dan Pashman, the host of the podcast The Sporkful, with the expertise of Sfoglini, a pasta company based in West Coxsackie, N.Y., in the Hudson Valley. The creation story has been documented on Mr. Pashman’s podcast as “Mission: Impastable.” He insisted on a shape that could be speared with a fork, and that would hold sauce well and have a proper bite. Traditionally extruded pasta shapes are made by forcing the dough through a die; a new, high-quality bronze die was made for cascatelli. The shape is a bit larger than most short pastas, but it’s very good, especially for simpler, less ingredient-heavy sauces like marinara, carbonara, pesto and arrabbiata."

NY Times

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jeong Haneul

Created by Thriley (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 181 past nominations.

Thriley (talk) 18:13, 19 July 2025 (UTC).

• General eligibility:
• New enough: - No, Dan Pashman was expanded from 127 words (or generously outside the 7 day from 83 words) to 291 words in the last 7 days. Not fivefold.
• 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: Not New Dan Pashman was not expanded fivefold with the 7 days time frame from 19 July. SquawkGuard (talk) 04:46, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

• I nominated this as a new article, not as a 5x expansion. Thriley (talk) 05:00, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

Ah! I missed that you moved it from a draft space I just checked the bottom of the page. I'm a new reviewer. Won't make that mistake again! Thanks for pointing this out!

Was hoping this was a simple case of using the DYK checker tool as I get practice with this. I think this hook is good, but maybe the tag on the page still needs to resolved before it's approved. I'm sure a more senior reviewer can take a look. - SquawkGuard (talk) 05:19, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

The {{bare urls}} tag wasn't valid. You do have multiple references missing publishers and accessdates, and please fix those anyway, but this isn't technically a DYK criterion. Neither is the {{clump}} tag I just added, although it really, really should be. That said, I just copyedited this and that took this below 1500 characters, which is a showstopper. Please add another 300 characters of new information to the article.--Launchballer 14:47, 13 August 2025 (UTC)

@Thriley: Please address the above.--Launchballer 18:38, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

I have gotten the article back above 1500 characters. Thriley (talk) 00:26, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

Still plenty of opportunities for concision which would take this back under.--Launchballer 11:37, 23 August 2025 (UTC)

• While it looks like there has been further expansion, some of it includes a bare URL, which is not allowed for DYK. When that's fixed, a new review will be needed because of the new material. Pinging nominator Thriley. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:09, 29 August 2025 (UTC)

@SquawkGuard: Please take a look. I have fixed the issues. Thriley (talk) 01:28, 2 September 2025 (UTC)

Would now exceed 1500 characters even with extraneous content removed.--Launchballer 11:42, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

This was temporarily pulled to make room for a SOHA set.--Launchballer 11:56, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Note: Noting that this should not be promoted with the image per WP:DYKIMG. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 08:25, 8 September 2025 (UTC)