Talk:Windsor Street Gasworks

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Evrik in topic Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Evrik (talk15:50, 31 July 2022 (UTC)Reply

 
The gasholders
  • ... that three gasholders at the Windsor Street Gasworks (pictured) were painted in the claret and blue colours of local football team Aston Villa? Source: "Which icons wearing claret and blue close to the Aston Expressway are about to go down? ... Although it owns the gas holders, it doesn't know how they became to be painted in Villa's colours" from: Young, Graham (25 April 2021). "Demolition of city's last gasholders marks the end of an era after 200 years". BirminghamLive. Retrieved 18 January 2022.

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 14:13, 12 July 2022 (UTC).Reply

  •   New article that was moved to mainspace on 12 July 2022‎‎ is 10,920 characters long and nominated on the same day. No copyvios detected (ref with 70.1% similarity is an example of WP:BACKWARDSCOPY, while next ref with 40.8% similarity falls under WP:LIMITED). Article is well-sourced. Main hook is 132 characters long (ALT1 is 106); both are under 200 character max. and are interesting. Refs 1 (verifying the main hook) and 3 (verifying ALT1) are reliable sources. Image is free and under Creative Commons license. QPQ done. Looks good to go! —Bloom6132 (talk) 21:54, 13 July 2022 (UTC)Reply