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A fact from Sams Creek (New Zealand) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 December 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the area around Sams Creek was excluded from Kahurangi National Park when it was formed in 1996 due to gold-mining interests?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sams Creek (New Zealand).

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 17:30, 11 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Sams Creek from the Cobb Road bridge

... that the area around Sams Creek (pictured) was excluded from Kahurangi National Park when it was formed in 1996 due to gold mining interests?

Source: At the northern end of the park, Macraes Mining successfully stood their paydirt at Sam's Creek... The exclusion of their 4000 ha gold prospecting clairm remains controversial.

ALT1: ... that the area around Sams Creek (pictured) was excluded from Kahurangi National Park when it was formed due to gold mining interests? Source: same
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Anna Haifisch
Comment: There's much more that can be said about Sams Creek with regards to the ongoing mining proposals. But the article qualifies as is.

Moved to mainspace by Schwede66 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 165 past nominations.

Schwede 66 08:16, 11 November 2024 (UTC).[reply]

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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image eligibility:

Freely licensed:
Used in article:
Clear at 100px: - Not particularly clear or interesting to a general audience.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Looks good to go; prefer ALT1, as the year of creation has some relevance (being so recent) but is not crucial. Sounder Bruce 03:06, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, SounderBruce, for your review. That's much appreciated. Would this image be better in your view? If so, we can use that in the article and here instead. If not, that's all good. Schwede 66 03:38, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the uncropped version is better, but I feel there's not a strong case for either to be used as the hook image. Sounder Bruce 03:55, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, we’ll leave it the way it is. Schwede 66 08:27, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]