Template:Did you know nominations/Kynuna Station

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The result was: promoted by Ashwin147 (talk) 17:25, 11 April 2013 (UTC).

Kynuna Station

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• ... that a drought in 1902 at Kynuna Station in Australia meant that 81,000 of a flock of 82,000 sheep had to be sent away?

• Reviewed: Action of 16 October 1799

Created by Hughesdarren (talk). Self nominated at 00:08, 31 March 2013 (UTC).

• Article is approximately 6400 characters, was created 28 March, and nominated 30 March, satisfying length and date criteria. QPQ has been completed. I am currently reviewing text and sources. Mindmatrix 17:05, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
• There are quite a few issues, but all are trivial to fix. The citation for "the town took it's name from the property" does not make such a claim. The last paragraph under "Description" is an unsourced run-on sentence. According to the source (2nd ref), it was established 18 months before that newspaper article was written, so sometime in early to mid 1876; wouldn't stating this be better than "prior to 1878"? The statements "deplorable appearance, not a vestige of grass to be seen anywhere", "regarded as one of the finest stations in the district", and "largest pastoral property in the Winton district" appear to be quotations, but there are no quotation marks or citations for them. (Quotations must be cited where they occur in the text.) The statement "One of the first artesian bores was drilled at Kynuna" is not supported by the source; the statement is ambiguous (first where? Kynuna? Australia? the world?), and the source does not state it was the first artesian bore, or the first at Kynuna. "Yarded" needs a definition. Mindmatrix 18:24, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
• Y trivial fixes done Hughesdarren (talk) 08:37, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

• I've made a few modifications (quotation marks, fixing run-on sentence, etc.). Although not necessary for the DYK, can you explain why the article states "prior to 1878" instead of "in 1876"? Mindmatrix 15:38, 10 April 2013 (UTC)

• Sourcing and minor formatting issues addressed. Mindmatrix 15:38, 10 April 2013 (UTC)