Talk:Copland Track

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:37, 23 July 2022 (UTC)

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Welcome Flat Hut

• ... that a hut on the Copland Track (pictured) had to be moved after being hit by a mudslide just 13 weeks after opening? Source: Wilderness magazine "A new hut was built in 1986 but disaster struck 13 weeks later when both huts were hit by a mud slide in the middle of the night... The new hut, although bathed in mud, was largely unharmed, and DOC, aided by the New Zealand Army, relocated the hut to its current site"
  • ALT1: ... that the Copland Track was originally intended as part of a tourist route to connect the Hermitage Hotel to the West Coast? Source: Breen, 2007: 8 "the Copland survey was commissioned specifically by Department of Lands and Survey for tourism purposes to: ...determine the practicability of a route for a mule or horse track from ‘The Hermitage’ across the alps to the West Coast via Hooker Valley and Baker’s Saddle"
  • ALT2: ... that a hut on New Zealand's Copland Track (pictured) had to be moved after being hit by a mudslide just 13 weeks after opening? Source: Wilderness magazine "A new hut was built in 1986 but disaster struck 13 weeks later when both huts were hit by a mud slide in the middle of the night... The new hut, although bathed in mud, was largely unharmed, and DOC, aided by the New Zealand Army, relocated the hut to its current site"
  • ALT3: ... that New Zealand's Copland Track was originally intended as part of a tourist route to connect the Hermitage Hotel to the West Coast? Source: Breen, 2007: 8 "the Copland survey was commissioned specifically by Department of Lands and Survey for tourism purposes to: ...determine the practicability of a route for a mule or horse track from ‘The Hermitage’ across the alps to the West Coast via Hooker Valley and Baker’s Saddle"
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Created by Turnagra (talk). Self-nominated at 09:51, 11 July 2022 (UTC).

• I shall review this. Storye book (talk) 07:47, 14 July 2022 (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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Thank you for a fascinating article. I wish I could walk that track!

• Just one issue: five paragraphs have no citation at the end.
• I have given the article a minor copyedit, but that does not affect DYK.

Summary: When the five paras have their citations at the end, this nom should be good to go. Storye book (talk) 08:35, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Storye book - have gone through and added sources now. A lot of them were instances where it was the same source as I'd used previously in the para and so felt like I was repeating myself with it. Hopefully that's all good now! Turnagra (talk) 10:19, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, Turnagra. Sorry, I have just thought of a problem with the hooks. Please could we have an ALT3 and ALT4, identical to ALTs 0 and 1, but with some indication in them that the location is New Zealand? There is nothing wrong with ALTs 0 and 1, but Copland is not a strange name in any English-speaking country - so the reader might be confused as to whether the track is in their own country - I was quite surprised to discover that it was in NZ. An easy solution would be to replace the first "the" with "New Zealand's". The NZ location is clickbaitey to a lot of us, anyway, because we don't get to look at it as often as we'd like - Oz gets more of the Press. What do you think? Storye book (talk) 13:16, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Sure thing Storye book - should be all good to go now hopefully! Turnagra (talk) 18:55, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Thank you, Turnagra. Storye book (talk) 19:22, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Good to go, with ALT2 or ALT3 - I think they're equally good - ALT2 has drama, and ALT3 makes you think of touristing across New Zealand. Storye book (talk) 19:22, 14 July 2022 (UTC)