Talk:Time in Kiribati

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Did you know... that between 1979 and 1994 the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati were a full day ahead of the country's eastern Phoenix and Line Islands?

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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 MeegsC (talk) 14:12, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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~~... that Kiribati observes three time zones, including UTC+14:00, which as the earliest time zone in the world makes Kiribati one of the first countries to celebrate a New Year? Source: [1]~~

- ALT1: ... that between 1979 and 1994 the Gilbert Islands in Kiribati were a full day ahead of Kiribati's eastern Phoenix and Line Islands? Source: [2]
Comment: Though this may be a more niche subject, I believe it is certainly quite fascinating.

Created by Anonymous 7481 (talk). Self-nominated at 05:19, 26 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Comments by Tbhotch

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough:
Other problems:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems:

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

QPQ: None required.

Overall: @Anonymous 7481: The source doesn't say anything about "which as the earliest time zone in the world makes Kiribati one of the first countries to celebrate a New Year" (it should be "to celebrate New Year", BTW). Personally, I know the hook is true as every New Year news broadcast mention it, and because of that, I think the fact "that the Gilbert Islands were a full day ahead of the eastern islands [...] When the Republic of Kiribati was founded in 1979" is even more interesting, especially because they lived like that for 24 years. What do you think? Of course, the hook would need to be reworked to be meaningful. Also, I left a few maintenance tags. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 17:22, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Tbhotch: Thank you for the comment Tbhotch! I must admit that proposed hook does sound considerably more interesting, how does one go about completely rewording the hook, do I simply edit it? Also, on the maintenance tags, I did not cite Samoa or IANA as the citations to the featured statements are on their respective articles, but I will make sure to do so if you wish.. and, on a broadly related note, I would wish to aid in reviewing hooks (which was initially not known possible to me), could you aid me with how the process works or point me to some guidelines on it? I would love to help out! And that would be much appreciated, thanks! Anonymous 7481 (talk) 00:05, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Anonymous 7481: You can write "ALT1: ... that ...? ALT2: ... that...?" and so on. For the tags, the idea is that this specific article will be featured on the main page, so this will be the one that people will read. If the sources are elsewhere, you can copypaste them here, there's no problem at doing that. If you click any of the bolded DYK links, you will see that none have unsourced statements because verifiability is one of the DYK rules. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 14:44, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Anonymous 7481: I added a few citations and I removed the unsourced statements I was unable to find. The article still long enough and within policy. (CC) Tbhotch^™ 01:42, 31 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]