Talk:Lake Brunner

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 Evrik (talk) 19:42, 30 July 2022 (UTC)

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Lake Brunner

• ... that 100-year-old logs, perfectly preserved and good enough to mill, have been retrieved from the bottom of Lake Brunner? Source: "The heart timber has been preserved underwater and is in the same condition as the day it was cut down 50–100 years ago." "Ray Thomas, Lake Brunner". Forestry and Land Operations Newsletter. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. March 2012. p. 2. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  • ALT1: ... that timber felled 100 years ago but lost while being towed across Lake Brunner has been salvaged from the lake floor, perfectly preserved? Source: Same
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John U. Monro

5x expanded by Giantflightlessbirds (talk). Self-nominated at 01:52, 16 July 2022 (UTC).

• ALT2: ... that while a Wikipedian-at-large, Mike Dickison, was improving the Wikipedia entry for Lake Brunner (pictured), he was filmed by Newshub for the 6 pm news? General write up about the residency and item as screened on the news.

• I thought we might as well have a bit of fun with this and have added ALT2. Hope you don't mind, Mike. Schwede66 22:40, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

• I think I prefer the other two hooks; I'd rather the attention was on the lake, not me! But whatever other editors think. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 10:20, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

• As the hook fact has been removed from the target article, I've struck ALT2. Schwede66 02:53, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

• New enough and long enough. QPQ present. Image is freely licensed, and hook fact is interesting. Some things to fine-tune, Schwede66: Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:24, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

• Two small islands in Pah Bay near the mouth of the Crooked River are known as the Refuge Islands (Takataka and Takatakaiti) needs a citation (and a period). The lake is large enough that it can be subject to severe weather, including a powerful easterly wind known as the "Brucer", which blows up the valley from Inchbonnie (originally the Bruce farm). needs a citation.
• The hook fact is in the article but needs a cite invocation on the sentence Logs that sank to the lake floor remained perfectly preserved a century later, with axe marks still visible..
• No other textual issues.

• Sammi Brie, I can see how this happened but it's not my nomination. Ping to Giantflightlessbirds on your behalf. Schwede66 22:27, 21 July 2022 (UTC)

• Thank you Sammi Brie for the review and Schwede66 for the heads-up; I've added a citation to the hook fact, and to the other two unreferenced sentences. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 01:01, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

• (Note: You can't add pings after the fact without signing your message again, Giantflightlessbirds.) AGF tick on the offline source also provided to back the hook. The issues have been fixed. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 16:08, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

Media coverage of this article

This section in the main article might be better in a "media coverage" box on this page.

"Development West Coast, a charitable trust, employed Mike Dickison as Wikipedian-at-large in 2020 and in 2022. While improving the Lake Brunner Wikipedia article in July 2022, Dickison was filmed by Newshub, with the item screening during the 6 pm news. The next morning, Dickison was interviewed live on TVNZ 1 show Breakfast about this work." Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 10:17, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Well, I added it as ALT2 needs the hook fact confirmed in the article. Admittedly, I struggled with where this would best go. Schwede66 16:39, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Since the ALT2 is a fact about the article, not Lake Brunner, it shouldn't need to be confirmed in the article itself, unless stuffy DYK rules insist on it. In a sensible world, confirmation on this Talk page would surely suffice! —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 18:25, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

The DYK rule book is lengthy indeed but there are just four eligibility criteria. One of those says: The fact(s) mentioned in the hook must be cited in the article. Whether that’s "stuffy" is a matter of judgment. Schwede66 18:46, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Oh, it's definitely stuffy; it makes it hard to have a DYK about an article, rather than the subject of an article, unless the article itself gets covered in reliable sources. I don't think the fact that I was once on TV for 30 seconds standing in front of Lake Brunner editing its Wikipedia article is a sufficiently noteworthy fact to appear in that article, sadly. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 02:50, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Fine by me. Would you be happy to have it recorded at the Development West Coast article that they have put funding towards a Wikipedian-at-large? Schwede66 10:07, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Yes please; I definitely can't do it as I currently have a COI. —Giantflightlessbirds (talk) 01:04, 23 July 2022 (UTC)