Talk:Windsor Street Gasworks
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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 Evrik (talk) 15:50, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
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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.
- ALT1: ... that the Windsor Street Gasworks in Birmingham, England, once boasted the largest gasholders in the world (pictured)? Source: "Twin gas holders built at Windsor Street in 1885 were the largest in the world, says National Grid." from: "Birmingham gas holders painted in Aston Villa colours to be taken down". BBC News. 25 February 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2022. NB: The further two in the photo were once the largest in the world, the third is bigger but later
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kyaymyin Mibaya
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 14:13, 12 July 2022 (UTC).
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)
