Talk:Māngere Bridge (suburb)

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January 10, 2022	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 25, 2022.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that a Māori military settlement at Māngere Bridge, New Zealand, was established in the 1840s to protect Auckland?

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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 SL93 (talk) 06:33, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that a Māori military settlement at Māngere Bridge, New Zealand was established in the 1840s to protect Auckland? Source: http://cfgheritage.com/2012_6tawhiaocottage.pdf - page 3
- ALT1: ... that family members of the Māori King Tāwhiao lived in Māngere Bridge, Auckland for education? Source: http://cfgheritage.com/2012_6tawhiaocottage.pdf - page 6

Improved to Good Article status by Prosperosity (talk). Self-nominated at 00:26, 11 January 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
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Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

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Good article and good hook~~, just need a QPQ to be done/linked and it's good to go.~~ 5225_C (talk • contributions) 04:34, 17 January 2022 (UTC), updated 03:30, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Prosperosity, thanks for all your good work on this article. Can I suggest that to be within the spirit of WP:NCNZ, this article should be moved to Māngere Bridge (suburb)? Schwede 66 02:02, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Schwede66 Sure thing! I'll do that now. --Prosperosity (talk) 03:47, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]