Template:Did you know nominations/Goodenough Bay

Goodenough Bay

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• ... that a bay in Papua New Guinea is Goodenough? Source: Could be the worst quirky pun DYK has seen
  • ALT1: ... that taro is cultivated on the coast of the marine Goodenough Bay through the use of canals? Source: [1] (available through TWL)
  • ALT2: ... that four villages along the southern coast of Goodenough Bay each speak a different form of the Wedau language? Source: "The language varies slightly among the four villages, the people of each claiming they speak the "real" Wedau."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Regan Garden
  • Comment: Submission for Papua New Guinea's 50th Independence Anniversary on 16 September 2025

Created by Chipmunkdavis (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 58 past nominations.

CMD (talk) 15:01, 22 July 2025 (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: User Chipmunkdavis (CMD) made a great job creating this article. The DYK nomination satisfy all the DYK eligibility criteria. I prefer the first (initial) version of the DYK, but probably I would add a word to it: "... that a bay in Papua New Guinea is called Goodenough?". For me it is an immediately catchy DYK and I prefer it over more complex ALT1 and ALT2 versions, but these alternative DYK versions are also good, so I think it is up to the DYK nominator to choose which one he prefer for the main page. I would definitely check the article if I saw the first (initial) DYK in the main page. -- Pofka (talk) 20:32, 22 July 2025 (UTC)

No objection, might also suggest along that idea that "considered" may fit the same purpose. CMD (talk) 12:16, 23 July 2025 (UTC)