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A fact from Brown Lake (Stradbroke Island) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 June 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Brown Lake is of cultural and spiritual significance to the Quandamooka people?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Brown Lake (Stradbroke Island).

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Aboriginal significance

Stradbroke Island has a long and rich indigenous history which I am well aware of, I have removed several statements shown below from the article

It was because of this colouring that the Aborigines believed that it had medicinal benefits.[citation needed] It was known by the Aborigines as Women's lake.[citation needed]

Although probably correct a definitive written source is lacking, I have included the material here in the hope that someone may track down a suitable reference and they can be re-included.--Matt (talk) 23:24, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Move

Should this article be named Brown Lake (North Stradbroke Island) to reflect the name of the island on which it is located. - Shiftchange (talk) 07:04, 24 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Changes Made

Hi Wikipedians,

I made some additions to Brown Lake's wikipedia page. I extended the lead section and I also added the sections of; Aquatic fauna, Geography, Flora and Natural History. SnoMurWal (talk) 03:45, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewed

The article has a lede that pulls some information from within the article. It's very close to "B" class as per the evaluation criteria found here. Additional citations are needed. Some cleanup required. The major point it needs help with is #6 on the B-class assessment criteria, "The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way." Some of the technical terms are not explained, within the article, sufficiently for the casual reader to know what they mean. Articles on Wikipedia must be written with as broad an audience in mind as possible. I believe every other point in the criteria is met sufficiently, though there is room for improvement. The class status has been changed to "C" (Project Lakes only). --ARose Wolf 13:08, 25 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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 Desertarun (talk) 09:59, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Brown Lake is of cultural and spiritual significance to the Quandamooka people? Source: Moult, L. (2012). 'TO JUST BE HERE': ABORIGINAL RELATIONSHIPS TO, AND MANAGEMENT OF, FRESHWATER AT BUMMIERA, NORTH STRADBROKE ISLAND. Australian Archaeology, (74), 114-114

5x expanded by SnoMurWal (talk). Self-nominated at 01:36, 25 May 2021 (UTC).[reply]

NB: According to User talk:SnoMurWal, the nominator is a student editor. Joofjoof (talk) 06:07, 25 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This interesting and well-written article is a fivefold expansion and is long enough. It has been nominated a little late, but I think we can forgive that for a student editor. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral, and I detected no copyright issues. No QPQ is needed here. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:32, 3 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]