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) 01:57, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
Overall: Thank you for an essential building construction history article. I struggled to understand exactly how the building worked (what roof beams and what cables where), and cropping out this picture-section solved the problem for me. The image is on a free-use licence and it is now in the article. It is up to you as to whether you want to include it with the hook, but either way I do think the hook demands some kind of visual explanation (admin please note?) So although the nomination already passes DYK, I have given it a query instead of a tick to delay promotion until you can respond with a decision about a picture. If you really don't want a picture or diagram, I shall respect that and tick the nomination.Storye book (talk) 15:20, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
@Storye book: Thanks for the review. The photo is a great illustration of the concept. I noticed that there were no articles on the subject. Most suspended structures have been of the bridge variety. I saw that you dropped by the article about the architectural method Suspended structure. Bruxton (talk) 18:34, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
Thank you, Bruxton, for improving the suspended structure article, and for agreeing to a picture for this DYK. So this is good to go for ALT0 with the picture (admin, this hook is incomprehensible without the picture, so please hold it back until there is a picture space for it?) Storye book (talk) 19:56, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
I'm not sure the image actually helps all that much? Like, I have a vague idea of what "suspended construction" might mean, which makes me want to click, and then I look at the image and feel completely clueless. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 17:02, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
@Theleekycauldron: Oh dear. Well, "suspended construction" means hanging construction, since in this context the verb, "suspend" means to hang. Construction doesn't need defining. So what one then looks for is a building kind of hanging from sky hooks, like an old-fashioned string puppet on a crossbar with strings suspended from it. And there we have it, in the picture. Sky-hook cross bars not unlike the puppet ones, seemingly hovering above the roof. And yes - there are the strings (actually massive cables) hanging from the crossbars (actually roof beams cantilevered from the building's central core, but what the hey). So there is the outer skin of the building hanging there like the old puppet. Magic! Magic because it's boringly logical if you look a the plans and do the maths, but a wonder of our age when you realise that the thing is dynamic - it can move and survive a degree of building-subsidence - and in some cases an earthquake. So magic. My journey was the opposite of yours. I struggled with the article, I not having access to the plans, while the sister article Suspended structure was still in its infancy (it's clearer now) and it wasn't until I found the picture and saw the sky hooks and the strings that I truly understood how it worked. Sorry but we need the picture in this case. Storye book (talk) 17:33, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
@Storye book: you're telling me the vertical bars stretching from the building to the horizontal thingamabobs are cables? they just look like beams to me theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (they/she) 07:26, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
They will be fairly massive weather-covered cables. A beam is wood. When you think about it, beams of wood in that position could do nothing but hold the cantilevered roof beams up, and what would be the point of that? The roof beams are the supporters of the cables which are the supporters of the outer skin of the building. It works just like the old string puppet which I described above. Storye book (talk) 12:00, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
Where does the nomination stand in regard to the image? SL93 (talk) 07:39, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
@SL93: To prevent confusion, I have removed the image of the puppet with crossbar and strings, because it was just there to explain something, and was not part of the nomination. Re your question of what to do about the nomination's image of the top of the building, the creator Bruxton has approved it, so it can stay with the nomination. Although Theleekycauldron has said that she does not understand it, she has been the only objector, and I do think that there ought to be some kind of illustration to explain that hook. I should have thought that any reader with a passing interest in building construction would either understand it or would be curious enough about it to click on the hook. So unless anyone has anything else to add, as far as I'm concerned the image is staying.
Good to go, with ALT0 and the image which helps to explain or at least illustrate the hook. Storye book (talk) 10:07, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
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Thank you for an essential building construction history article. I struggled to understand exactly how the building worked (what roof beams and what cables where), and cropping out this picture-section solved the problem for me. The image is on a free-use licence and it is now in the article. It is up to you as to whether you want to include it with the hook, but either way I do think the hook demands some kind of visual explanation (admin please note?) 
Thank you, Bruxton, for improving the suspended structure article, and for agreeing to a picture for this DYK. So this is good to go for ALT0 with the picture (admin, this hook is incomprehensible without the picture, so please hold it back until there is a picture space for it?) Storye book (talk) 19:56, 15 January 2022 (UTC)