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A fact from Sirinumu Dam appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 September 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that communities around the Sirinumu Dam lack reliable access to electricity and drinking water?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2025/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sirinumu Dam.

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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 Dclemens1971 talk 13:44, 8 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

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... that Sirinumu Dam is located in customary land? Source: The Sirinumu Dam is located outside the city boundary on customary land
- ALT1: ... that communities around the Sirinumu Dam lack reliable access to drinking water? Source: He also pointed out that even though his people in Wakai and the other surrounding communities live in the dam area, they did not have adequate access to electricity or drinkable water.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Saskatchewan Marshals Service
- Comment: Submission for Papua New Guinea's 50th Independence Anniversary on 16 September 2025

Created by Chipmunkdavis (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 63 past nominations.

CMD (talk) 16:26, 16 August 2025 (UTC).Reply

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

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Excellent article. ALT0 is dull, and while ALT1 is more interesting, it would be even more so if it were mentioned that the communities also lack electricity, which is the other major point of a dam. Suggest
ALT1a: ... that communities around the Sirinumu Dam lack reliable access to electricity and drinking water?, which may need a new review for the electricity bit if someone is feeling especially bureaucratic. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 17:17, 20 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for the review, electricity doesn't automatically come to mind when I think of dams but I agree it's a more comprehensive hook and have no objection to ALT1a if a promoter agrees with your assumption. CMD (talk) 09:54, 21 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

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