Talk:Scandinavian migration to the Hawaiian Kingdom

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A fact from Scandinavian migration to the Hawaiian Kingdom appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 June 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Beta (pictured) brought Scandinavians to the Hawaiian Kingdom to work on sugarcane plantations?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Scandinavian migration to the Hawaiian Kingdom.

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 Launchballer talk 14:59, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Beta (1880)

... that the Beta brought Scandinavians to the Hawaiian Kingdom to work on sugarcane plantations?
- Source: Davis, Eleanor H. (1963). "The Norse Migration: Norwegian Labor in Hawaii". Seventy-First Annual Report of the Hawaiian Historical Society for the Year 1962 (Report). Honolulu: Hawaiian Historical Society. pp. 29–31. OCLC 722784910.
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- Comment: Co-nomination between Viriditas (Scandinavian migration to the Hawaiian Kingdom) and Mjroots (Beta)

Created by Viriditas (talk) and Mjroots (talk). Number of QPQs required: 4. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 39 past nominations.

Viriditas (talk) 11:09, 1 June 2025 (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: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Everything looks good here. I love double noms. Great work!

Wow, impressive and a fascinating subject matter. Reading through but first impressions are this is defiantly main hook and obvs GA material, but can you move the image above into the article's lead. The hook above could be more surprising with some word shifting....thinking. Ceoil (talk) 12:27, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Ceoil: I leave the changes in your hands. The reason there’s no image in the lead is because my original idea was to create a black and white image of the Earth showing the route on a sphere, which as it turns out is almost impossible due to the distances, but can almost be done. I took my query to the refdesk where it became too complex to create. My second idea was to capture the famous image of the memorial, but there are several reasons I haven’t done that just yet. The main reason I haven’t done that is because I was hoping to get a new phone and camera. The image of the Beta currently leads the ship article, so I’m thinking we should avoid the duplication and use something else. Viriditas (talk) 01:24, 2 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just realized this would work if the globe was spinning. Viriditas (talk) 03:00, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just discovered the entire shipping route. Viriditas (talk) 10:40, 3 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Happy days! Best of luck with creating an image replicating the route Ceoil (talk) 22:50, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]