Template:Did you know nominations/Municipal Asphalt Plant

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 18:52, 17 August 2023 (UTC)

Municipal Asphalt Plant

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The Municipal Asphalt Plant

• ... that the walls of the Municipal Asphalt Plant's mixing plant remained standing after three weeks of attempts to demolish it? Source: Mifflin, Lawrie (January 28, 1976). "Old Asphalt Plant Settled Safely on Road to Posterity". New York Daily News.
  • ALT1: ... that the Municipal Asphalt Plant became a recreation center after three weeks of attempts to demolish it? Source: Mifflin, Lawrie (January 28, 1976). "Old Asphalt Plant Settled Safely on Road to Posterity". New York Daily News.
  • ALT2: ... that the Municipal Asphalt Plant, characterized by Robert Moses as the "Cathedral of Asphalt" when it opened, later became a recreation center? Source: Mifflin, Lawrie (January 28, 1976). "Old Asphalt Plant Settled Safely on Road to Posterity". New York Daily News.
  • ALT3: ... that the Municipal Asphalt Plant was likened to a half-buried sardine can? Source: Johnson, Kirk (June 28, 1985). "2 Rental Luxury Towers Rise in the New Yorkville". The New York Times.
  • ALT4: ... that the Municipal Asphalt Plant later trained an Olympic swimmer? Source: Heyman, Marshall (September 25, 2012). "Upper East Side 'Pool Party' Goes for Gold". Wall Street Journal.
  • ALT4A: ... that an Olympic swimmer trained at the Municipal Asphalt Plant? Source: Heyman, Marshall (September 25, 2012). "Upper East Side 'Pool Party' Goes for Gold". Wall Street Journal.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Thwaites Glacier

Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 15:17, 7 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Municipal Asphalt Plant; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: the link to the Johnson (1985) scan isn't legible to me, so I'll AGF.

• ALT2: The source cited doesn't mention "Cathedral of Asphalt" unless I missed it. It seems from the other sources cited in the article that the term was specifically used by Moses, and I didn't see evidence of wide use.
• ALT4: Being a spoilsport, I don't think it's quite correct to say that the building trained the swimmer. Presumably it's phrased like that for quirkiness, unless it's a form of words in American English I'm not used to. I'm not sure I can approve that one as it stands.

• @Epicgenius: - I love these hooks, but have queries on a couple. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 14:18, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the review BennyOnTheLoose. I've attributed ALT2 to Moses and proposed ALT4A as an alternative to ALT4. In American English, sometimes when we mention the building/organization, we actually mean their occupants, employees, etc. (So for example, if we say the White House did something, then we mean that the President or his staff did it.) Epicgenius (talk) 14:31, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Sorry to make you wait BennyOnTheLoose. I've done a QPQ now. Epicgenius (talk) 13:43, 17 August 2023 (UTC)