Talk:Oostpunt

A fact from Oostpunt appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 May 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the region of Oostpunt, which encompasses roughly 10 percent of the island of Curaçao, is privately owned?

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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 15:09, 10 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the village of Oostpunt in Curaçao is private property of the Maal family, and covers about 10% of the island? Source: Government of Curaçao. In Dutch page 8: "Eigendom van de familie Maal. Het totale gebied beslaat circa 10% van het eiland."[1]

Reviewed: Helmut Branny

Created by KittenKlub (talk). Self-nominated at 10:23, 25 April 2021 (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: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article is 2639 characters long according to DYKcheck, and the Earwig report is clean. Hook is supported by Dutch source. Joofjoof (talk) 11:11, 29 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

KittenKlub, I was going to promote this one, but the lede paragraph in the article is confusing. Is Oospunt the name of the region as well as the town? And is the article about region rather than the town? The village covers 10% of the island, but only two people live there? And the town is private and off-limits except for the town? Very confusing! Can you have a go at tweaking the lede a bit? Please ping me when you've done so. Thanks.

MeegsC (talk) 16:24, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MeegsC The article is based on the so-called Geozone (read region. you can call it a municipality, however there is no local government on the island). It's the statistical definition which includes an area, population count etc. The region is named after the village of Oostpunt, but contains three villages: Oostpunt, Sint Joris, and Santa Catharina. The region covers 10% of the island and is private property most of which is off-limits except for the villages. Basically, anybody can drive to Sint Joris on a decent road and you are not trespassing even though some of the ground is privately owned. KittenKlub (talk) 17:13, 8 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying the lede KittenKlub. Now we need to modify the hook. It's the geozone that covers 10% of the island, not the village, right? How about:

ALT1:... that the region of Oostpunt, privately owned by the Maal family, encompasses almost 10% of the island of Curaçao?

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ALT2:... that the region of Oostpunt, which encompasses roughly 10% of the island of Curaçao, is privately owned?

MeegsC (talk) 10:14, 10 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@MeegsC: I prefer ALT2. KittenKlub (talk) 11:30, 10 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]