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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:24, 2 March 2017 (UTC)

Missionary Day

 * ... that Missionary Day, celebrated on 5 March in French Polynesia, commemorates the 1797 arrival of the Protestant missionaries in Tahiti aboard the Duff (pictured)?
 * Reviewed: Laguna del Maule (volcano)
 * Comment: Please promote on March 5 (Papeete time).

Created by KAVEBEAR (talk). Self-nominated at 00:24, 27 January 2017 (UTC).


 * Review by Maile
 * QPQ
 * QPQ review by KAVEBEAR has not been used as a QPQ on any other nomination
 * Eligibility
 * Article created by KAVEBEAR on January 26, 2017, and has 1735 characters (0 words) "readable prose size"
 * Article is NPOV, currently stable, no dispute tags
 * Sourcing
 * Citations are appropriately placed in every paragraph and correctly formatted
 * No bare URLs, and no external links used as inline sources
 * Hook
 * Hook is 150 characters, NPOV, stated in the article and sourced where stated
 * Image
 * Image used is in the article, uploaded on Commons and dated circa 1820s, sourced with a working link to the Library of New Zealand, and PD in the country of origin
 * Tools
 * Earwig's Copyvio Detector showed no issues of concern.
 * I read through the sources that were in English, and saw no issues of concern.
 * AGF on the non-English sources

Good 2 Go. As a total aside to this review, I found the source To Live Among the Stars: Christian Origins in Oceania really interesting reading, as far as what I could access on Google's limited view. — Maile (talk) 16:00, 9 February 2017 (UTC)


 * Comment: I wanted to write a review, but am too late ;) - How about mentioning Henry Nott, as the French Wikipedia does, and using this image also, for a feeling of the time? I am also not happy with the phrase in the lead "the arrival ... and the landing", thinking that the arrival is the landing. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:11, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
 * As used in the article, I read it as "arrival" refers to the missionaries in French Polynesia as a whole, and "landing" referring only to the specific place the ship docked. — Maile (talk) 16:19, 9 February 2017 (UTC)


 * I understand that missionaries arrived before, but these specific ones that day by that ship, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 16:56, 9 February 2017 (UTC)


 * The changes by Maile66 are fine. And I don't want to emphasize Nott because his importance and legacy is only an after fact. He was not the most important member of the first group while the Duff has significant in the history of the LMS missionaries as a whole. This is not in the article but the Tahiti mission is in fact the first missionary endeavor made by the LMS group and marked a departure from the missionary efforts of before which were linked to colonial conquests. --KAVEBEAR (talk) 21:09, 9 February 2017 (UTC)

Just to confirm that this nomination has passed, and the nominator is not making any changes to the article. My change that is referring to above was only to clarify the sentence about the landing of the ship. — Maile (talk) 01:38, 24 February 2017 (UTC)