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Your submission at Articles for creation: Clark House (New Zealand) has been accepted

Clark House (New Zealand), which you submitted to Articles for creation, has been created.

Congratulations, and thank you for helping expand the scope of Wikipedia! We hope you will continue making quality contributions.

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Bkissin (talk) 17:26, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Clark House (New Zealand)

On 26 June 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Clark House (New Zealand), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Clark House (pictured) hosted Cold War meetings? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Clark House (New Zealand). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Clark House (New Zealand)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

—Ganesha811 (talk) 00:02, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Great work on this article and DYK! Very cool to see a historic New Zealand house on the front page of Wikipedia. Cheers, Chocmilk03 (talk) 01:45, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

Architecture barnstar

		WikiProject Architecture Award
		Clark House is an exceptional start for your account. I hope you have many more such articles in you! ~ Pbritti (talk) 02:50, 26 June 2024 (UTC)