Talk:Marmaduke Dixon (settler)
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Yoninah in topic Did you know nomination
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Did you know nomination
edit- 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) 18:13, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
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- ... that the irrigation intake that New Zealand farmer Marmaduke Dixon long campaigned for is now a historic structure registered by Heritage New Zealand? Source: "Heritage listing of the tunnel; "they were met by Marmaduke Dixon (and his son, Marmaduke John) who promoted the merits of what they were convinced would be a better and cheaper intake at Browns Rock" from the history page of Waimakariri Irrigation Limited
- Reviewed: Gudrun Schröfel
- Comment: I'm nominating two articles of identical base name (this is the father; his son is nominated here) and maybe we want to run them together in the same hook set to cause some intrigue.
Created by Schwede66 (talk). Self-nominated at 18:58, 10 December 2020 (UTC).
Interesting life on good sources, no copyvio obvious. I like the hook. Unless you want to combine father and son, I'd vote to give each his own. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:38, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, Gerda. Just to clarify: I'm suggesting two separate hooks, but run in the same set of hooks. Schwede66 19:42, 11 December 2020 (UTC)