Talk:Panmure Bridge

A fact from Panmure Bridge appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 January 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the construction of Auckland's Panmure Bridge in 1865 involved underwater repairs using Heinke diving suits?

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Did you know nomination

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 SL93 (talk) 00:35, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... ~~that construction of the Panmure Bridge in Auckland, New Zealand in 1865 involved underwater repairs using Heinke diving suits?~~ Source: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1408/S00039/heritage-of-original-panmure-bridge-recognised.htm

https://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/9501 Created by Prosperosity (talk). Self-nominated at 02:00, 3 January 2022 (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: None required.

Overall: This was an interesting article to read, and an easy DYK review to do because the article was put together so well. Bravo. Havradim (talk) 04:09, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I hereby offer a slight tweaking and formatting of the hook. Specifically, we would want the reader to focus most on Panmure Bridge and less on Heinke. Information on Auckland and diving suits can be had by clicking on the former:

ALT0a ... that construction of Auckland's Panmure Bridge in 1865 involved underwater repairs using Heinke diving suits? Havradim (talk) 04:09, 4 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The tweaked wording looks all good for me! --Prosperosity (talk) 00:42, 6 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]