Talk:Quail Island (Victoria)

News source leads

This Blogspot post obviously can't be cited on its own as a reliable source, but it is extensively researched with links to news articles and books of the time, well worth checking out for expansion. Gnomingstuff (talk) 07:17, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by BorgQueen (talk) 22:24, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

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Quail Island from Warneet, Victoria, Australia

• ... that government officials tried to prevent a film of starving koalas on Victoria's Quail Island (pictured) from being shown outside Australia? Source: The Koala: "To avoid further embarrassment the government then used the powers of wartime censorship to prevent the film being shown outside Australia."
  • ALT1: ... that a housekeeper nearly died on Quail Island (pictured) in Australia after getting lost in a swamp of mangroves? Source: Coastal Guide to Labor and History: "...Mrs. Fordham's near-death experience reported in the Argus on 1 November 1865"
  • ALT2: ... that Australia's Quail Island (pictured) was once proposed as the site of a labor site for unemployed men? Source: Coastal Guide to Labor and History: "It was even proposed as a labour colony for unemployed men in 1909."
  • ALT3: ... that 12 to 16 feral pigs disturbed the salt marshes in Australia's Quail Island (pictured) by wallowing? Source: Eradication of Feral Pigs on Quail Island: "Based on camera detections, the population was estimated to include 12–16 individuals in 2018. Damage attributable to Feral Pigs on Quail Island was readily identifiable on saltmarsh. as well as throughout the interior of the island. Wallows were created in areas in moist soils (freshwater) as well as throughout areas subject to tidal inundation (Fig. 1)"
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  • Comment: Third nomination; sorry if this is too frequent, I just remembered this existed and am doing a lot of expansion work lately. This is another Unreferenced Articles WikiProject expansion on an island with a lot of interesting stories turned up during research. Hooks in order by preference. ALT1 is vivid but may be too trivia-esque. ALT2 makes me a little on-edge since it's unclear exactly what kind of "labor colony" was proposed, but it is an unusual sourced fact. ALT3 is, yes, blatant piggybacking (no pun intended) off the feral hog meme. Image isn't amazing, but it is free and on the article.

5x expanded by Gnomingstuff (talk). Self-nominated at 14:16, 7 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Quail Island (Victoria); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• No copyvio, proper length, expanded x5 on the day of the nomination, QPQ not needed, ALT0 preferred for being the most interesting, source accepted in good faith. Would prefer if "Victoria's" was taken out of the hook. Image OK, but would prefer no image at all. 〜 Festucalex • talk 15:18, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

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• ALT4: ... that the Australian government tried to censor a film of starving koalas on Quail Island?