Template:Did you know nominations/2009 Dusky Sound earthquake

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 23:16, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

2009 Dusky Sound earthquake

(

• Back to T:TDYK
• Article history

)

• ... that despite being New Zealand's biggest earthquake in 78 years, the 2009 Dusky Sound earthquake caused only minor damage?

• Source: Biggest earthquake magnitude since 1931. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nine-years-ago-nzs-forgotten-magnitude-78-monster-quake-struck-fiordland/E6HDU4UUBRDSKIXOZ7Y5HROE3I/

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Emily Ausmus

Improved to Good Article status by Panamitsu (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 42 past nominations.

―Panamitsu (talk) 00:09, 12 July 2024 (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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: No huge problems, although the hook says 78 years while the source and the article does not exactly say it. Also waiting for the QPQ. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 12:04, 14 July 2024 (UTC)

• QPQ done now. I was thinking that this year number is fine per WP:CALC. What do you think about this? Having a hook with both 1931 and 2009 seems a bit awkward to me and I think it dilutes the interesting-ness. ―Panamitsu (talk) 00:30, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

Good to go. 🍗TheNuggeteer🍗 08:26, 22 July 2024 (UTC)