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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 SL93 (talk) 20:38, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

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Zunda Towers

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  • ... that the Zunda Towers (pictured) in Riga, Latvia, changed their name from "Z-Towers" to avoid being associated with Russia's invasion of Ukraine? Source: https://archive.today/20220328105547/https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/business/riga-landmark-z-towers-change-their-name.a449928/
    • Reviewed: Zeitenwende speech
    • Comment: this is my second dyk nomination, so apologies if i have made any errors. any suggestions or advice is welcome.
      admittedly, i have not successfully figured out how to use any of the citation bots yet, so would appreciate help from any wikignomes.
      also. i am pretty sure that the towers are the tallest twin skyscrapers in the baltic states, but am unable to find a reliable source that explicitly states this. in addition, i believe one of the two towers may be considered the tallest building in latvia, depending on the definition of "tallest building" used, but i think explaining the definition used may end up being a distraction.

Created by dying (talk). Self-nominated at 23:53, 11 September 2022 (UTC).

  • The article is long enough (c. 1700 characters) and fresh enough (nominated 7 days after creation). It is neutral and well-sourced. The English-language sources check out, and the Latvian ones appear to do so too using Google Translate. The hook is concise and very interesting. I see no copyright issues with the images (own work by Wikipedia editors and automatically checked FlickR transfers). I do suggest manually filling out the citation templates, though, as it will look far better than bare URLs. Surtsicna (talk) 03:49, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
    • @Dying and Surtsicna: actually, bare URLs do need to be cleaned up before this article can be promoted to the preps, per the DYK criteria. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 23:18, 14 September 2022 (UTC)
I forgot it was in the supplementary rules. Thank you. Surtsicna (talk) 04:49, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
dying? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 23:48, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
sorry! one of the control keys on my keyboard has apparently gotten stuck during the past few days, so i have been putting off addressing anything that was not time-sensitive, as writing anything is currently an agonizing process. since i am not in a rush to get this on the main page, can we put this nomination aside for the moment? i can ping once the urls have been addressed. dying (talk) 00:32, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
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