Talk:Red Hook Park

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Review: April 3, 2021. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Red Hook Park appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 January 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that an artificial turf soccer field in New York City's Red Hook Park, donated by the Norwegian government, was destroyed by arson ten days after its dedication?

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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. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 16:20, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that an artificial turf soccer field in New York City's Red Hook Park, donated by the Norwegian government, was destroyed by arson ten days after its dedication? Source: NY Times Sep 24, 1994
- ALT1:... that New York City's Red Hook Park was built on the sites of an unbuilt terminal railroad, a refinery, and a junkyard? Source: NYC Parks Red Hook Park History, NY Times May 4, 2018, Brooklyn Citizen Jul 19, 1940
- ALT2:... that New York City parks commissioner Robert Moses rejected a transfer of land for Red Hook Park to protest that the plot could be taken back on thirty days' notice? Source: NY Times Jun 22, 1934

Reviewed: Cortinarius britannicus
Comment: In the copyright violation detector, there is a blog post that copies a few sentences from Wikipedia; this is a false positive.

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 22:23, 8 January 2021 (UTC).[reply]

expansion checks out, QPQ checks out, I like the first hook, but I wonder if we could be more precise, both in the hook and the article? It strike me that the field was destroyed by vandals, not simply "burned", so if we can find a way of perhaps combining what's already there with the totality of it being destroyed, I think we have a winner. It's also probably a good idea to add "all-weather" before soccer field because for most of us, burning a load of grass on a football pitch is inconvenient but it'll just grow back, whereas burning some astroturf is pretty final... The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 08:43, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: Thanks for the review. Yeah, I agree mentioning that it was totaled is better. I've done that. Epicgenius (talk) 17:27, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just a tiny tweak, the article says it was destroyed "ten days" after the dedication, not "within ten days", so I think we can afford to be precise and reflect the NYT here. Then it's good to go. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:23, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: Thanks, I've done that as well. I might've misread the source at the beginning. Epicgenius (talk) 14:42, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

all good in the hood. Well done, nice work. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 14:54, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]