Talk:Brooklyn Fire Department
Latest comment: 4 years ago by 97198 in topic Did you know nomination
 | A fact from Brooklyn Fire Department appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 January 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- 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 97198 (talk) 14:27, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
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... that upon its founding in 1869, the Brooklyn Fire Department replaced a volunteer fire department with about 3,000 firefighters? Source: NYCLPC p. 3- ALT0a: ... that upon its founding in 1869, the Brooklyn Fire Department replaced a volunteer fire department of about 3,000 firefighters by a paid force? Source: NYCLPC p. 3
- ALT1: ... that in the 1890s, the Brooklyn Fire Department built a headquarters that it only occupied for four years? Source: NY Times
- ALT2: ... that upon its founding in 1869, the Brooklyn Fire Department consisted of thirteen engine companies and six ladder companies?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tanis S'eiltin
- Comment: The original draft was by 94.113.79.37. Additionally Nemecekdavid1 (talk · contribs) added an AFC tag to the article before I expanded it and moved it to mainspace.
Created by Epicgenius (talk) and 94.113.79.37 (talk). Nominated by Epicgenius (talk) at 18:50, 14 November 2019 (UTC).
- @Epicgenius: Not a full review, just pointing out that the wording of the original hook sounds like the volunteer department was replaced with 3,000 professional firefighters, rather than 3,000 volunteer firefighters being replaced with a few hundred professionals (according to the source). Maybe "replaced a volunteer fire department of about 3,000 firefighters" is more clear? 97198 (talk) 09:32, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
- @97198: Yeah, that sounds much better. Thanks, I didn't realize the wording may sound confusing (the BFD replaced the volunteer fire department, with the latter containing 3,000 firefighters, which I thought was what this meant). epicgenius (talk) 14:28, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts of ALT0 and ALT1 are cited inline, and I have added ALT2. The article is neutral and I detected no copyright or plagiarism issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:30, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
