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![]() | A fact from Looe Bridge appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 January 2022 (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 SL93 (talk) 01:01, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
- ... that the medieval Looe Bridge had either 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, or 18 arches? Source: Each number of arches has individual footnote in article §Medieval bridge (1411–1853)
Created by MIDI (talk). Self-nominated at 13:13, 11 January 2022 (UTC).
- Hi MIDI, review follows: article moved to mainspace today; article is well written and exceeds minimum length; sources used are reliable; I didn't pick up any overly close paraphrasing from a sample of the online sources; hook is interesting (I wonder it it was repaired at various time changing the number of arches), mentioned in the article and checks out to hook cited; shame there doesn't appear to be a drawing of the medieval bridge online anywhere. Just awaiting a QPQ. One minor comment: you give the construction as being of "Slatestone rubble, granite" in the infobox but this is not cited or mentioned in the main body - Dumelow (talk) 13:57, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks @Dumelow: – all valid points! Certainly a shame about the image especially when it sounds like sketches were made by notable people. I do like to include images with my DYK noms, but given that the most interesting DYK material in this article is about the old bridge, it would be a photo for a photo's sake this time. I've sorted the inclusion/referencing of the materials
, so just a QPQ to do now I hope. MIDI (talk) 20:12, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
- QPQ now done. MIDI (talk) 20:36, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
- Yes, I agree that a photo of the modern bridge is not appropriate. All good to go on this one - Dumelow (talk) 06:57, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks @Dumelow: – all valid points! Certainly a shame about the image especially when it sounds like sketches were made by notable people. I do like to include images with my DYK noms, but given that the most interesting DYK material in this article is about the old bridge, it would be a photo for a photo's sake this time. I've sorted the inclusion/referencing of the materials
Thousand pities
editThis rang alarm bells in my head. Leland was alive in the sixteenth century, how could he have been writing about the demolition of a bridge in the nineteenth century? Harrison in The Bridges of Medieval England attributes this to Henderson and Coates, and Google Books seems to corroborate this despite it being a snippet view. I've edited this.
I've also built a Wikimedia Commons category and linked to the pre-existing Wikidata page (someone built Wikidata entries for all listed buildings in the UK, which is nice). It was a great reminder of Cornish holidays to read this! Blythwood (talk) 00:32, 18 January 2022 (UTC)