Template:Did you know nominations/Narragansett Pier Railroad
- 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 21:19, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
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Narragansett Pier Railroad
A Narragansett Pier Railroad train in 1936
- ... that owners of the Narragansett Pier Railroad included a family of industrialists, a dentist, a systems analyst, a lumberyard, and the founder of Textron? Source: A Short Haul to the Bay: A History of the Narragansett Pier Railroad by James N. J. Henwood. Dentist supported by [1] Bangor Daily News, December 28, 1979, page 2.
Improved to Good Article status by Trainsandotherthings (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 29 past nominations.
Trainsandotherthings (talk) 20:10, 17 June 2024 (UTC).
Approving on good faith. Article is long enough and promoted to GA four days before DYK nom. Article is presentable, well-sourced, and free from copyvio. Hook is interesting, source is acceptable on good faith. Image meets criteria. QPQ done. Nothing else to comment on from me. Thank you for your nomination Trainsandotherthings! Kimikel (talk) 03:34, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- File:Narragansett Pier Railroad 11.jpg is a technically superior image; if we run an image, I strongly suggest we use that instead. On the other hand, while both images are marked CC-BY-SA-4.0 on the https://provlibdigital.org/ site where they came from, I have my doubts as to whether that's legitimate. @Trainsandotherthings and Nikkimaria:. RoySmith (talk) 20:55, 30 June 2024 (UTC)
- @RoySmith: You're right that the original photo I proposed isn't the best choice. I uploaded the photo you proposed after I made this nomination and forgot to suggest it here, so thanks for catching that. In the interest of this not sitting in pending forever, we can either remove the photos or substitute this photo from 1876 which is quite unlikely to still be under copyright due to its nearly 150 year age. I think we need to start a discussion on Commons regarding the other photos and get some input from editors there. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 13:25, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
Narragansett Pier Railroad engine #1 in 1876
- @Trainsandotherthings: just poking around, a found a few images that I think should qualify for PD (and some other stuff that you may or may not have already found) and might be interesting:
- https://ghostsofwallstreet.com/products/narragansett-pier-railroad-company
- https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/narragansett-pier-railroad-monthly-2117687760
- https://smallstatebighistory.com/narraganset-pier-railroads-operations-in-1964-described-by-the-companys-president/
- If we don't have an image that can be agreed upon, I'm ok with running this without an image. The hook is not in dispute, at least. Not every DYKN can have an image, anyways, and the image isn't significant for the hook here. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 00:57, 9 July 2024 (UTC)