Talk:Café Adria

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The result was: promoted by BorgQueen talk 19:59, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

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The 60 centimetre shell which failed to explode

• ... that the nightclub Café Adria survived a hit by a Karl-Gerät siege mortar (pictured)?

• Source: one of few interwar-era locations to survive the war, despite being hit by a bomb in 1944, which lodged in the basement but – miraculously – did not explode

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jacques Lewis
• Comment: This hook depends on the remarkable picture for its impact. If it doesn't get the picture slot then an ALT may work better. Something about the revolving dancefloor, perhaps. But I plan to add a picture of that too...

Created by Andrew Davidson (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 129 past nominations.

Andrew🐉(talk) 09:23, 25 August 2024 (UTC).

• Hi Andrew Davidson, review follows: article created 19 August and exceeds minimum length; I am not familiar with the online sources used but look like they should be reliable (WhiteMAD looks to be a specialist architecture site and Note From Poland has an editorial board and policy); I didn't spot any overly close paraphrasing from the two; a QPQ has been carried out; image is excellent, I am happy to AGF that it was published as stated on Commons in 1957 without a copyright notice which would render it PD; hook fact is interesting and stated in the article, it is covered by the MAD source but needs a citation immediately after the statement to comply with the DYK rules. I also think the clarification needed tag should be addressed before a main page appearance. Happy to review any ALT hooks you come up with, the revolving dancefloor sounds intriguing! - Dumelow (talk) 09:47, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

What do we think of the statement on the Commons image page that the photo has been attributed by the Warsaw Rising Museum to being a different building in Napoleon Square? The link on the Commons page only goes to the Polish Wikipedia article for the museum - Dumelow (talk) 12:26, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

@Dumelow: Which image? Can you link it and the relevant discussions? --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 05:56, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Jarekt loaded the image and wrote those details of its provenance. Perhaps he can tell us more.

To avoid the issue, I've changed that image to a similar one that is not disputed. The clarification tag has also been removed.

The revolving dancefloor can be seen 90 seconds into this evocative video. It would be good to take a section of footage and turn it into a gif which shows it revolving but that would be technically complex and might not work well on the main page.

Andrew🐉(talk) 09:39, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, replacement image looks to be OK. I've duplicated the ref after the hook fact as required by the DYK rules - Dumelow (talk) 12:01, 29 August 2024 (UTC)