Template:Did you know nominations/Stephen King (conservationist)

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The result was: promoted by Darth Stabro talk 18:18, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Stephen King (conservationist)

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... that conservationist Stephen King was once kicked out of Bible College for refusing to wear shoes?

Source: *"[...]to attend Bible College in Christchurch. He was thrown out after just six months for refusing to wear shoes."

- ALT1: ... that conservationist Stephen King led the world's first treesitting protest, spending a week 30 metres up an ancient tōtora tree? Source: "Yet Stephen King and Pureora were household names in 1978, when a weeklong treetop protest in a giant totara brought logging to a halt." / "World's first treesitting" / "[...]in the totara after he went up about 30m to visit a tree-top protester, Mr Stephen King."
- ALT2: ... that conservationist Stephen King has spent the majority of his life barefoot? Source: "Apart from a short period at secondary school King has always gone barefoot[...]"
- ALT3: ... that New Zealand conservationist Stephen King once walked from Christchurch to Ōtaki barefoot? Source: "on his offending bare feet he walked out of college, then out of Christchurch. He kept on walking, pausing only to take the Cook Strait ferry[...]. At this point he decided to abandon the great walk home to Auckland. Diverting to Otaki, he hitched a ride[...]"
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- Comment: Originally 66 words, at time of nom it's now at 758 words. Article was prodded on 4th, deprodded on the 6th and expanded from a stub from the 7th August.

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

Nil🥝 02:12, 11 August 2025 (UTC).

Doing... ミラP@Miraclepine 02:32, 12 August 2025 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Expanded from 372 to 4605 within the past five days; nice job rescuing this from PROD. Earwig found a copied sentence at https://m.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/objectionable.html, but it's copying from enwiki; this took longer than I expected, but otherwise no issues worth noting after close paraphrasing and V issues are dealt with. Prefer ALT0 and ALT2 as ALT1 has that issue with superlative hooks and people may not be familiar with Otaki in ALT3. Initially had reservations for ALT0 but realized Bible College sounds like what it is even for American audiences: an evangelical Christian theological college (which in turns is similar to a bible college). ミラP@Miraclepine 03:30, 12 August 2025 (UTC)