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A fact from Nigel (gannet) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 February 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the "world's loneliest seabird" chose a concrete statue as his mate?

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The result was: promoted by Bunnypranav talk 13:13, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the "world's loneliest seabird" chose a concrete statue as his mate?

Source: https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/129606888/nigel-the-gannet-and-the-legacy-of-the-worlds-loneliest-bird

Reviewed: Template:Did_you_know_nominations/Albis_Tunnel

Moved to mainspace by Panamitsu (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 61 past nominations.

―Panamitsu (talk) 07:01, 11 January 2025 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems: - ?

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: New enough (moved from draftspace on 11 January); Long enough (4388 characters); Sourced and neutral; No plagiarism concerns (Earwig - 2.9%); Hook is cited and interesting; QPQ has been provided. The article seems to be in good shape apart from a few presentability issues:

The full form of DOC needs to be made known and wikilinked before using the abbreviation.
"and would communicate with it" -> "and would try to communicate with it", surely he wasn't actually communicating with a concrete statue.
"the island after DOC moved" -> "the island after the DOC moved" (same goes for every other mention of the DOC)
We do not know what "Friends of Mana" is, it needs to be elaborated that it is a volunteer group.
It'd be nice for readability if the second sentence of the "Background" section was split into two. AmateurHi$torian (talk) 11:13, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Panamitsu: I've made some minor edits to the page including adding author names to the citations; Seems good to go once the issues above get resolved. AmateurHi$torian (talk) 11:28, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@AmateurHi$torian: Thanks for the review and feedback. I've incorporated all these changes, except for the "the DOC" one. For some reason sources usually do not have the "the" before DOC, e.g. this one. ―Panamitsu (talk) 22:28, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go AmateurHi$torian (talk) 08:29, 12 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]