Talk:Springfield Science Museum

A fact from Springfield Science Museum appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 December 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Springfield Science Museum is home to the oldest operating projection planetarium in the United States?

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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 PrimalMustelid talk 16:59, 19 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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... that the Springfield Science Museum is home to the oldest operating projection planetarium in the United States? Sources:
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.ips-planetarium.org/resource/resmgr/planetarian/201309.pdf (pg 24)
https://www.masslive.com/opinion/2023/04/historic-starball-gets-a-digital-partner-inside-springfields-seymour-planetarium-commentary.html
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Converted from a redirect by ForsythiaJo (talk). Self-nominated at 23:01, 1 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Springfield Science Museum; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Regarding the QPQ: reviewer has nom'ed less than 5, so it should be OK. A few quick fixes and I think it should be OK! Gen. Quon_[Talk] 21:14, 16 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

@ForsythiaJo: Please respond to the above. Z1720 (talk) 01:50, 25 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

I have done some rephrasing in that section that I believe should fix the problem. :) ForsythiaJo (talk) 04:39, 25 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Gen. Quon: Have your concerns been resolved? If not, what needs to be done to get this hook approved? Z1720 (talk) 03:19, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

Yes, I apologize! This should be good to go now.—Gen. Quon_[Talk] 06:39, 9 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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