Template:Did you know nominations/Tala tank

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The result was: promoted by Desertarun (talk) 18:41, 1 June 2021 (UTC)

Tala tank

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Tala tank in August 1911

• ... that the Tala tank is the largest overhead water reservoir in the world? Source: The Times of India
  • ALT1:... that the Tala tank survived the Japanese bombing on Calcutta in World War II by planting grass on top of the tank? Source: The Telegraph
  • ALT2:... that the Tala tank has total water holding capacity of 9.9 million imperial gallons (45,000 cubic metres)? Source: ice.org.uk
  • ALT3:... that the steel used for building the Tala tank is the same quality steel used in the Titanic? Source: Ei Samay

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/312 and 314 East 53rd Street
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Created by ArnabSaha (talk). Self-nominated at 15:06, 14 May 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: ALT1 is most interesting, followed by ALT0. I've made a few grammatical adjustments to these hooks, though they may need to be refined a bit more.

• The picture is public domain in the US, but it would have to be considered public domain in India as well. That is only possible if the image is considered a photograph (thus https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:PD-India-photo-1958 should be placed on the file page). I'm not sure if this is the case. Epicgenius (talk) 14:53, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

• Epicgenius It's a drawing. But it should be free in India (60 years in India). In commons, only the option for U.S. is there, and I thought it would do the work. That's why didn't add PD-India manually. Also, its from a U.S. magazine. Now, the problem is, there's a issue with my PC, and I can't edit on mobile. If possible, kindly edit the file license.  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  17:57, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

• @ArnabSaha: Sorry for forgetting to respond. I've edited the file license. Epicgenius (talk) 14:50, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

• @Epicgenius: what about this?  Saha ❯❯❯ Stay safe  10:47, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

ALT1a:... that grass was planted on top of Tala tank to protect it from the Japanese bombing on Calcutta during World War II?

ArnabSaha, that works as well. I changed the link to make it point directly to the article as required by DYK rules. Epicgenius (talk) 14:50, 25 May 2021 (UTC)