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This article is written in New Zealand English, which has its own spelling conventions (colour, realise, analyse, centre, fiord) and some terms that are used in it may be different or absent from other varieties of English. According to the relevant style guide, this should not be changed without broad consensus.

A fact from Auckland (meteorite) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 September 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Auckland meteorite crashed through the roof of a house in New Zealand?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Auckland (meteorite).

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For anyone reading this in the future, the Scott et al. source can be used for a more thorough description. I have not added much from it because I do not have an understanding of the topic. ―Panamitsu (talk) 09:10, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Sohom Datta talk 20:30, 31 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The Auckland meteorite

... that the Auckland meteorite (pictured) crashed through the roof of a house in New Zealand?

Source: https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/4654/the-ellerslie-meteorite

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/White Mountain Fire (1988)

Created by Panamitsu (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 44 past nominations.

―Panamitsu (talk) 06:40, 19 August 2024 (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: - Not done
Overall: New enough, long enough, sourced and neutral, Earwig detects no issues with the article. The photo is used, clear, and free. QPQ is needed, but also Panamitsu I'm very curious if we would be able to workshop the hook. In my opinion, there's some aspects of this meteorite that could make for something potentially more hook-ier. Namely:

The sofa that was damaged by the meteorite being auctioned (same source mentions it's the only one that hit a house in NZ) [1]
The meteorite being potentially thrown out [2]
The meteorite being named as such because the street and post office names were already taken [3]

Perfectly fine if these angles are not interesting to you, but there are plenty to work with in this DYK and I felt eager to share my two cents. Ornithoptera (talk) 23:30, 19 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Ornithoptera: I've added a QPQ now. Thanks for the suggestions. I think they require a bit too much context for a short DYK hook :) ―Panamitsu (talk) 00:29, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be honest with you, I disagree (the couch one is fairly easy to understand), but I won't dispute it. Seems like everything checks out then. Ornithoptera (talk) 00:33, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]