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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 PrimalMustelid talk 18:30, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

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Potiki

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  • ... that despite the novel Potiki being about the impact of land development on an indigenous community, author Patricia Grace did not mean for it to be seen as political? Source: [1] "The book was described as political. I suppose it was but I didn’t realise it. The land issues and language issues were what Māori people lived with every day and still do. It was just everyday life to us, and the ordinary lives of ordinary people was what I wanted to write about, so I didn’t expect the angry reaction from some quarters."

Improved to Good Article status by Chocmilk03 (talk). Self-nominated at 22:13, 5 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Potiki; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

  • Article is totally presentable. New enough: promoted to GA earlier on the day of the nomination. Long enough: >7000 chars of prose. Neutral, no BLP issues, and no copyright violation, although Earwig gives a false positive based on the quotes. The "Plot Summary" section needs citations on the two latter paragraphs, but that's probably the same source as the first paragraph.
The given hook represents the source well and is interesting, but it's a bit clunky. I would tighten it up like this:
  • ALT1... that Patricia Grace did not mean for her novel Potiki, about the impact of land development on an indigenous community, to be seen as political?
There's those two nitpicks to address, but aside from that it looks good. Apocheir (talk) 18:54, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
@Apocheir: Thanks very much for the review! I'm happy with your suggested tweak to the hook, that's much better. I hadn't added citations to the plot summary section in reliance on MOS:PLOTSOURCE; the work itself is the primary source. I did think that a secondary source was needed for the statements in the first paragraph about the meaning of potiki and who it refers to, so that's why those statements are cited. Is that OK? Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 04:11, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
Ah, I wasn't aware of MOS:PLOTSOURCE. Stick a fork in 'er, for ALT1. Apocheir (talk) 19:01, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
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