Talk:Bridges Auditorium

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:28, 28 September 2020 (UTC)

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Bridges Auditorium

• ... that when the 2500-seat Bridges Auditorium (pictured) was completed in Claremont, California, in 1931, its capacity was equal to the population of the entire city? Source: [1] "Although enrolled students numbered 1,300 in 1931, the Bridges family, with faith in the College’s growth and the civic value of such a facility, provided seating for 2,500 (then the population of the City of Claremont)."

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Converted from a redirect by Sdkb (talk). Self-nominated at 17:00, 18 September 2020 (UTC).

• Suggested alt: that when Claremont's Bridges Auditorium (pictured) was completed, it seating capacity was larger than the population of the entire city? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cbl62 (talk • contribs)

  That's not reflective of the source, which says equal to, not greater than. {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 08:19, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

• @Sdkb: This article replaces a redirect and is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. The image is appropriately licensed and a QPQ has been done. I wonder about the use of external images in the article, not having come across this before. You need to deal with the "citation needed" tag in the infobox. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:57, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

  Cwmhiraeth, thanks for the review!

  The infobox height statistic comes from OpenStreetMap, where it was presumably imported from some official source; there's no reason to think it'd be false, but since OpenStreetMap is open source, it can't be used as a citation, thus why I added the tag. I did find a cross-section of the building on the second-to-last page of this document, but it frustratingly doesn't include the elevation of the very top point. Given all this, I'm 99% sure it's accurate and would prefer to leave it in, but it's not a big deal if we have to comment it out while the page appears on DYK.

  Regarding external images, {{External media}} is fairly widely used with a few thousand transclusions. It's never ideal but often better than nothing. The 1931 construction image is necessarily going to have to be external until it enters the public domain in a few years (unless it gets released), since realistically there's no way a new image of that will surface. The ceiling one will hopefully be replaced by a Commons photo (I put up a requested image tag on the talk page), but until then I think it's better to offer the link. Cheers, {{u|Sdkb}} ^talk 18:01, 20 September 2020 (UTC)

• Thank you. I have commented out the tag. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:42, 20 September 2020 (UTC)