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August 21, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
November 30, 2025	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 8, 2026.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the coconut (examples pictured) may have bisexual flowers?

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The result was: promoted by Darth Stabro (talk) 17:27, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Coconuts

... that the coconut (examples pictured) is not a nut?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Cenotaph, Bulawayo
- Comment: Driveby nom.

Improved to Good Article status by Chiswick Chap (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 351 past nominations.

Laun chba ller 11:27, 7 December 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
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QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article was improved to GA on 30 November 2025 and is currently 5,489 words (34,128 characters) in length. The article is fully-sourced, neutral and free from plagiarism, as confirmed by the GA review. The hook is cited and is interesting, although this is a relatively common piece of trivia, so an ALT hook might be good to have in case others aren't intrigued by ALT0. The image is freely licensed, easily discernable at a small size and it is used in the article. QPQ is done. If the nominator can provide an ALT hook of a fact that might be less widely known than its botanical classification, I'll be happy to pass this. Grnrchst (talk) 19:07, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New one on me, but the other two things that stuck out were ALT1: ... that the coconut (examples pictured) may have bisexual flowers? and ALT2: ... that the coconut (examples pictured) spawned a Vietnamese religion?.--Laun chba ller 19:28, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, happy to approve all the above proposed hooks. Will leave it up to the preppers to decide which would play best. --Grnrchst (talk) 19:41, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. As a general rule, I find that non-bolded links divert readers away from the articles we actually want them to read.--Laun chba ller 19:43, 7 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut Narali Purnima points to wrong link maybe the correct one is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narali_Poornima? ~2026-16180-2 (talk) 17:23, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done Day Creature (talk) 18:15, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I find it odd that the article has no section on natural dispersal or reproduction. It's one of the more interesting things about the coconut; dropping the fruit where it may be washed out by tides and carried on ocean currents. Looking back through history, there used to be a pretty good section on this. I'll go through and find where it was lost and if there was any justification, otherwise I suggest putting it back. Thoughts appreciated! --Bridgecross (talk) 17:00, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately the supposed long-distance dispersal of coconuts by ocean currents is not borne out by science; coconuts die if immersed for long periods. The removed material was (therefore) cited to unreliable popular sources, which were happy to repeat urban myths, but we can't follow them. The article does however say how coconuts are dispersed. Chiswick Chap (talk) 11:34, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]