Talk:South Bronx Greenway

A fact from South Bronx Greenway appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the South Bronx Greenway includes recycled granite from the Willis Avenue Bridge?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/South Bronx Greenway.

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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 Kingsif (talk) 19:58, 11 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... ~~that the South Bronx Greenway includes a park built on a demapped street? Source: "Located at the end of Farragut Street, which was partially demapped..."~~ [1]
- ALT1:... that the South Bronx Greenway includes recycled granite from the Willis Avenue Bridge? Source: "Granite recycled from the Willis Avenue Bridge when it was replaced in 2005 was used to construct seating in the park new park" [2]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John Matthews (Upper Canada politician)

5x expanded by RoySmith (talk). Self-nominated at 18:42, 28 July 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: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Wonderful article. I think ALT1 is somewhat better, as the 'demapped' term is relatively obscure No Swan So Fine (talk) 10:50, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@No Swan So Fine:, thanks, yeah I agree about the hooks, I've struck ALT0. I added a photo of the granite seating, but I suck at gallery layout. Hopefully I can find somebody who's better at that to fix it up before it goes live -- RoySmith (talk) 13:55, 4 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

-- RoySmith (talk) 18:46, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]