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A fact from Tamatou appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 June 2026 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that according to oral tradition, a wooden doll was the ruler of the kingdom of Tonga for three years?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2026/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tamatou.

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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. Track your hook after promotion. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 (talk) 02:56, 17 June 2026 (UTC)Reply

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... that a wooden doll ruled the kingdom of Tonga for three years?

Source: Gifford, Edward Winslow (1924). Tongan myths and tales. Internet Archive. New York : Kraus Reprint.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Benjamin Karim
- Comment: the page title should likely have been moved to "Tamatou" by the time of promotion

Created by Kepler-1229b (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

🪐Kepler-1229b | talk | contribs🪐 19:41, 3 June 2026 (UTC).Reply

This sounds extremely interesting. I will review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:16, 4 June 2026 (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:

Thank you for this crazy interesting hook. One of my favorite hooks to review ever. Article looks good. Nice work. I think this will be a very successful DYK. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:38, 4 June 2026 (UTC)Reply