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On 26 October 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to GeoNet. The result of the discussion was Create dab at base name.

A fact from GeoNet (New Zealand) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 December 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Aucklanders have a reputation for making false earthquake reports on New Zealand's earthquake monitoring website GeoNet?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/GeoNet (New Zealand).

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Requested move 26 October 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Create dab at base name. Per consensus – robertsky (talk) 16:17, 8 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GeoNet (New Zealand) → GeoNet
GeoNet → GeoNet (email host)

– GeoNet (New Zealand) appears to be the primary topic because 1: the other GeoNet does not exist anymore and 2: the New Zealand one is recognisable to most of the New Zealand population, whereas I doubt that many people would recognise the other GeoNet. ―Panamitsu (talk) 03:35, 26 October 2024 (UTC)— Relisting early so banner stays up for at least seven days per WP:RMCI. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 16:58, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Weak support I'd be inclined to support this, partially based on the fact that earthquakes in New Zealand show up as spikes in view numbers for the German GeoNet article. I shall point out that the German GeoNet is still going, but only by name (it is an email hosting service these days). Schwede 66 19:24, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Procedural comment. This is a malformed request and should be procedurally closed if the format is not converted to a multi-move request. The proposed location of the article currently at GeoNet needs to be made explicit in the move request, and there is currently no notification that a move is under consideration at GeoNet or Talk:GeoNet. Dekimasuよ! 05:20, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Per Dekimasu, on nom's behalf, converted to multi-move request and relisted so notification at GeoNet or Talk:GeoNet goes for seven days. I have no strong attachment to "GeoNet (email host)"—just used Schwede66's comment to propose a destination other than "?". Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 16:58, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, Rotideypoc41352. I did see that this was malformed but did not bother doing anything about it because there was a notification on the German GeoNet's talk page. Nonetheless, it’s good that it’s now a proper multi-request. Schwede 66 17:06, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose ~~2nd~~1st, the email host has 71 views but the New Zealand one only has 46[[1]] so a DAB is probably better. Crouch, Swale (talk) 21:58, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Just a question, if you're proposing a DAB then wouldn't that be supporting the second and opposing the first, rather than the other way round? Turnagra (talk) 23:12, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Corrected. Crouch, Swale (talk) 23:16, 27 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

At this point in time the New Zealand GeoNet page does not appear on Google, so the view count is temporarily deflated. We're comparing apples to oranges here. ―Panamitsu (talk) 04:58, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support: At least to a disambiguation page. Per Schewede it seems that users are mostly trying to find the article on the New Zealand service. --Spekkios (talk) 20:03, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose the first (NZ topic) and move the second (email topic) then redirect "GeoNet" to Geonet (disambiguation) -- 65.92.246.77 (talk) 01:21, 6 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Question - Why not DABify GeoNet? GEOnet Names Server is another possible option, even if it is DAB'd by the "Names Server" bit. FOARP (talk) 14:56, 7 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Did you know nomination

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 16:58, 21 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that people have tried drawing phalluses on the earthquake monitoring website GeoNet?

Source: https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/11-10-2024/whos-the-aucklander-who-claims-to-feel-every-earthquake-in-new-zealand -- it says "certain appendage"

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures

Created by Panamitsu (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 51 past nominations.

―Panamitsu (talk) 03:43, 26 October 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Length, date, qpq, close paraphrase check ok. But is there a possibility for a second reference for the hook fact? The notion that 'certain appendage' is to be understood as a dick requires a bit of reading between the lines, but the ref also talks about this as an one-off incident. --Soman (talk) 11:49, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm okay. I've had a look for another source but couldn't find one. Does this mean that I have to find another fact? I've at least changed the plurality of the hook to address that concern.

ALT1:

... that people have tried drawing a phallus on the earthquake monitoring website GeoNet?

―Panamitsu (talk) 21:59, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

But still, we have one source saying that maybe someone once drew a dick using the platform. Unless there is another ref indicating that the trolling of the site would be a phenomenon, I'd suggest that another factoid be used for ALT hook. --Soman (talk) 15:56, 3 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Soman: Oh I'm getting confused. I'm not sure if you want me to change the pluralisation, or find a new fact. I'll do both.

ALT2:

"... that someone has tried drawing a phallus on the earthquake monitoring website GeoNet?"

ALT3:

"... that Aucklanders have a reputation for making false earthquake reports on New Zealand's earthquake monitoring website GeoNet?"

Source: https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/11-10-2024/whos-the-aucklander-who-claims-to-feel-every-earthquake-in-new-zealand

―Panamitsu (talk) 06:02, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks, apologies for the inconvenience. I'm ok with ALT3. --Soman (talk) 09:37, 11 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]