Talk:Wakanui

A fact from Wakanui appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 July 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that although Damien O'Connor, the minister of agriculture, stated that "the image of pastoral farming is the one New Zealand promotes", he called the ANZCO Foods feedlot (drone footage featured) at Wakanui "innovative"?

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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 Yoninah (talk) 11:13, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Wakanui feedlot drone footage

... that although the Minister of Agriculture, Damien O'Connor, states that "the image of pastoral farming is the one New Zealand promotes", he is unconcerned about the ANZCO Foods feedlot at Wakanui (video)?

Source: "Minister of Agriculture Damien O'Connor also launched a scathing attack, saying New Zealand would be crippled if it listened to everything SAFE said. ... 'Clearly the image of pastoral farming is the one New Zealand promotes and it is the mainstay of our industry.' "Radio New Zealand

Reviewed: Seattle Center Monorail & Troy Collings
Comment: It's not often that you have a good and interesting video with a new article but I got lucky and got my hands onto some drone footage. Very impressive and so not-New Zealand. I wasn't sure whether to use "(pictured)" when a video is used; please tweak it if I've got it wrong.

Created by Schwede66 (talk). Self-nominated at 04:22, 23 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

I've just written an article for the company that owns the feedlot and have added that to this nomination. Schwede 66 23:02, 23 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose this proposal unless it is amended for balance. It should more fairly quote the source and say ALT1: ... that although the Minister of Agriculture, Damien O'Connor, says "the image of pastoral farming is the one New Zealand promotes ... we are open to innovative ways to produce good quality beef", and the ANZCO Foods feedlot at Wakanui "is one of them"?

That's less tabloidy than a minister being "unconcerned" about a feedlot. The source does not say he is unconcerned. Moriori (talk) 00:27, 9 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

(←) This has stalled, and the hook is somewhat awkward at the moment. @Schwede66: Would you be amenable to preparing two DYKs, one for each article? The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 20:17, 23 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@The Squirrel Conspiracy: thanks for your note. I'm not sure that I call this "stalled"; it's simply that nobody has reviewed this yet (the editor who commented is a fellow New Zealander, knows of the situation, and all he may have read is the hook; we don't know whether he's even looked at the two articles). It's ultimately up to the reviewer to judge, based on the sources provided, whether or not the hook as suggested by me is appropriate. When you say that "the hook is somewhat awkward at the moment", I assume that you refer to ALT1; I share that concern. ALT1 is also outside of the size limit for hooks. This is a double nomination as the topics belong together and no, I would not be interested in splitting this into two separate nominations; I also cannot see the point that such a split would achieve. With regards to the Minister of Agriculture's attitude, this is best explored in the article written by The Spinoff. Schwede 66 21:38, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:38, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

These two articles are new enough and long enough. The video clip is appropriately licensed and would be good on the main page. The hook facts are cited inline, the articles are neutral and I detected no copyright issues. Two QPQs have been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:23, 2 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicate statements about New Zealand's largest feedlot

The Wakanui Beef section has duplicate statements about it being New Zealand's largest feedlot. I would remove the 2nd one but I don't want to inadvertently misplace the refs. Is the Campbell ref also for the number of cattle? Nurg (talk) 02:07, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Nurg. Removed the duplication and yes, the talk about those numbers in the interview. Schwede 66 02:35, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nice DYK

Kudos for creating a DYK with impact. That footage is an... interesting counterpoint to the straight-faced reporting of the official statements, regardless of what you think good pastoral practice should look like. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 15:53, 15 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]