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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 sovereign°sentinel (contribs) 09:48, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Utica, New York

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Utica, New York
Utica, New York
  • ... that a city in New York (pictured) might have gotten its name after being picked from a hat?

Improved to Good Article status by Buffaboy (talk). Self-nominated at 22:51, 25 August 2015 (UTC).

  • Recently promoted to GA, well written, within policy and inline cited, ALT1 and ALT2 are better than ALT0, and QPQ's not required here. It's good to go. --Captain Assassin! «TCG» 02:42, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
Thanks! I looked in the prep area ands it looks like Utica will be exposed twice with the Adirondack Railway. Buffaboy talk 22:09, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
I think ALT0 is better, it's shorter and I think it would be more interesting to the average reader (a weirdish theory vs the history of manufacturing). Rainbow unicorn (talk) 21:28, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
If it's not too late, I'd also suggest for Alt 3:
  • Great! Restoring the tick for ALT3. --Captain Assassin! «TCG» 02:08, 6 September 2015 (UTC)