Template:Did you know nominations/St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan)

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The result was: promoted by Z1720 (talk) 05:30, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan)

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St. Patrick's Cathedral

• ... that New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral (pictured), designed with a marble roof, instead received a "temporary" plaster and wood roof that was never replaced? Source: Thompson, Ginger (November 24, 1996). "`An awesome place to pray'; Church: St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue has drawn visitors through the century, from the pope from Rome to city dwellers right across the street". The Sun. Baltimore. p. 2A.
  • ALT0a:... that New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral (pictured), designed with a marble ceiling, instead received a "temporary" plaster and wood ceiling that was never replaced?
  • ALT1:... that New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral (pictured), praised upon completion as the "finest church edifice on the American continent", was funded mostly by poor Irish Catholic parishioners? Source: Thompson 1996; Stern, Robert A. M.; Mellins, Thomas; Fishman, David (1999). New York 1880: Architecture and Urbanism in the Gilded Age. Monacelli Press. p. 317
  • ALT2:... that no one knows where the cornerstone for New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral (pictured) is located? Source: Roberts, Sam (October 13, 2011). "At St. Patrick's, a Cornerstone That Has Long Eluded Searchers". The New York Times
  • ALT3:... that New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral (pictured) took 20 years to build and another 30 years to consecrate? Source: "Mgr. Farley Officiates at the Consecration: Princes and Prelates of Church Gather at St. Patrick's in Honor of Occasion". New-York Tribune. October 6, 1910.

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Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 18:44, 9 July 2021 (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: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Very nicely improved article. Significant overlap with a website that appears to be a WP mirror, per Earwig. AGF on some of the hook sources. Just awaiting QPQ. Ergo Sum 19:41, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

@Ergo Sum: Thanks for the compliment and for the review. I have done a QPQ now. Epicgenius (talk) 16:48, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Good to go. Ergo Sum 18:26, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

Substituted ALT0a for ALT0 after consultation with Epicgenius. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:41, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

Can I recommend ALT1 with an image slot Kingsif (talk) 18:38, 4 August 2021 (UTC)

To T:DYK/P3 Z1720 (talk) 05:30, 10 August 2021 (UTC)