NotAWittyFish

DYK nomination of National Māori flag

Hello! Your submission of National Māori flag at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) at your nomination's entry and respond there at your earliest convenience. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Cielquiparle (talk) 08:51, 21 September 2022 (UTC)

Congratulations. It is great to see a new editor creating such an important article. Well done. Schwede66 01:34, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! happy to be a part of the working group. NotAWittyFish (talk) 14:33, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

DYK for National Māori flag

On 14 October 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article National Māori flag, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the white design on the national Māori flag (pictured) is a traditional Māori koru, or fern frond, representing renewal and hope for the future? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/National Māori flag. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, National Māori flag), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 5,672 views (472.7 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of October 2022 – nice work!

theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 01:48, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution

Hi NotAWittyFish! Thank you for your edits to Flagpole. It looks like you've copied or moved text from Flag into that page, and while you are welcome to re-use the content, Wikipedia's licensing requires that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. If you've copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for this duplication if it has not already been supplied by another editor. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thanks! DanCherek (talk) 20:08, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Cheers, Dan. Thanks for letting me know and correcting it on the flagpole page. I will link and attribute in the future.  Not A  Witty Fish 21:00, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

Friendly inquiry

I've noticed that you're impressively familiar with some of the ins and outs of the encyclopedia given that you're a recently registered editor. If you've previously edited under a different account, please consider mentioning this on your user page. And if not, please feel free to ignore this message and consider this a compliment!  Vanilla  Wizard 💙 00:20, 12 November 2022 (UTC)

Thank you! I write historical research papers at my day job.  Not A  Witty Fish 00:51, 15 November 2022 (UTC)

DYK for Flag families

On 18 November 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Flag families, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that most national flags belong to a flag family with similar designs? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Flag families. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Flag families), and if they received a combined total of at least 416.7 views per hour (i.e., 5,000 views in 12 hours or 10,000 in 24), the hook may be added to the statistics page. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Great job! I was a flag fanatic as a kid! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 18:32, 18 November 2022 (UTC)

Thanks! I'm an adult flag fanatic!  Not A  Witty Fish 22:10, 22 November 2022 (UTC)