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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:57, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

William A. Starrett

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Empire State Building
Empire State Building
Source William A. Starrett, builder of the Empire State Building succumbs
Source The father of the skyscraper, Col. William A. Starrett...
Source Colonel William A. Starrett, former mayor of Madison, was the builder of the great Empire State Building...

Created by Doug Coldwell (talk). Self-nominated at 12:10, 28 July 2017 (UTC).

  • New enough, long enough, neutral, well cite, 3.8% on copyvio detector, QPQ checks out. I'd just suggest a slightly different hook:
I'd also appreciate some more mentions of him calling him "father of the skyscraper" before using ALT1/2, since other names pop up far more frequently for that phrase in search engines. DaßWölf 00:26, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
Daß Wölf Let's go with ALT3. I was bold and stuck out the other options.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 10:40, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
Alright then, good to go :) DaßWölf 15:06, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
  • Comment to Promoter - can this be placed #1 in the DYK queue with the picture of the Empire State Building. I think it will get a lot of hits. Thanks!!--Doug Coldwell (talk) 18:04, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
@Yoninah: Let's go with the very nice ALT4 suggestion - was bold and struck out ALT3, since it will not be used.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 14:07, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
  • Thank you. Calling on another reviewer to approve ALT4. Pinging @Daß Wölf:. Yoninah (talk) 15:19, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
  • Sure, refs check out :) DaßWölf 23:24, 31 July 2017 (UTC)