Template:Did you know nominations/Giovan Giacomo Paleari Fratino
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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 05:03, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
Giovan Giacomo Paleari Fratino
[edit]- ... that the Genoese military engineer Giovan Giacomo Paleari Fratino designed and built the world's first Martello tower (pictured)?
Created/expanded by Aymatth2 (talk). Nominated by Prioryman (talk) at 22:45, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
I'm a bit concerned that some closeness to source structure still remains, for example to this source. I'm also seeing a couple of factual errors: for example, you say that Pamplona was almost a pentagon, but your source says it was almost a hexagon. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:33, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
- I made some copyedits to clarify the wording in the section on Gibraltar, but did not change the structure, which seems fairly natural - basically chronological. What is the concern here? I fixed the Pamplona polygon problem. What is the other factual error? Aymatth2 (talk) 14:32, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
- The bit about "Philip II's chief engineer Tibúrcio Spannocchi refused to stop work on the zigzag wall" - the source says he refused to allow it to be destroyed, and that it was later completed, but doesn't connect the two in that way. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:04, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
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Okay, that's probably good enough, then. Nikkimaria (talk) 03:03, 3 November 2012 (UTC)