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Queens Zoo

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A petting farm at the Queens Zoo

• ... that the aviary of New York City's Queens Zoo was once a memorial to Winston Churchill? Source: Gray, Christopher (January 3, 1993). "Streetscapes: The Queens Aviary; A Great Outside Interior Space". The New York Times
  • ALT1: ... that New York City's Queens Zoo recorded 100 blackouts in its first three years? Source: "Tatiana Blasts Parks Dept. For Blackouts at Zoo". Daily News. February 25, 1971. p. 353.
  • ALT2: ... that New York City's Queens Zoo once received a lion cub despite having no lion enclosure? Source: Dallas, Gus (October 15, 1981). "New Den Floor for Cub to Li-On?". Daily News. p. 172
  • ALT3: ... that after a renovation of New York City's Queens Zoo was finished, the zoo stayed closed, and weeds grew there? Source: Dallas, Gus (September 29, 1991). "Zoos Caught in Budget Web". Daily News. p. 75.
  • ALT4: ... that a decade after the Queens Zoo opened, it was so rundown that one New York City politician called it a "poor man's zoo"? Source: Alston, Blanche Cordelia (November 27, 1979). "Officials Bemoan State of Queens Zoo". The New York Times.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ana Sigüenza
  • Comment: Thanks to Pretzelles for suggesting ALTs 0-2.

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 671 past nominations.

Epicgenius (talk) 18:57, 30 August 2024 (UTC).

• I walked past here a few weeks ago, so happy to review. Still working through reading the article! Legoktm (talk) 06:13, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

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 eligibility:

• Freely licensed:
• Used in article:
• Clear at 100px: - not really

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Legoktm (talk) 06:55, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

• Overall great article, ALT2 is my favorite hook, then ALT1, ALT0, ALT3, ALT4. All check out regarding sourcing and are . The image doesn't really work at the low resolution IMO, I think one of the aviary shots would be better. Some assorted comments since I read the whole article, but are minor and don't block the DYK approval:
  • The Animals section starts with "The zoo is home to as many as 112 species as of 2013" (and in the infobox); is there really no updated figure 10 years later?
  • "The administration of mayor Ed Koch and the New York Zoological Society signed a fifty-year agreement" - did the administration really sign the agreement and not the mayor himself? The NYT source says the mayor signed it.
  • Many animals are not wikilinked on first reference in the Description section, but later are during the Animals section - was there a reason for that?
  • I'm low-key skeptical that the non-free logo in the infobox adds anything, it basically just says the zoo's name. Legoktm (talk) 06:55, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
    • Thanks for the review. I added some links and changed the text about the agreement to reflect the source. The logo is outdated, so I removed it. Unfortunately, I couldn't find a more recent figure for the number of species (at least, not one that mentions a date). Epicgenius (talk) 14:35, 3 September 2024 (UTC)