Template:Did you know nominations/Bayswater, Western Australia

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:44, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Bayswater, Western Australia

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... that when the Fremantle–Guildford railway line opened in 1881, people would get off at Bayswater, Western Australia, hike through bushland, and take a boat across the Swan River to get to Perth Racecourse? Source: May, Catherine (2013). Changes they've seen: the city and people of Bayswater 1827-2013. Morley, W.A.: City of Bayswater. p. 31. ISBN 9780646596082. – "Racegoers used the [Fremantle–Guildford railway] line to travel as far as the point opposite the racecourse, which happened to be Location U, and then to make the route march through the bush to the riverbank, where enterprising boatmen were waiting."
- ALT1:... that an 1885 advertisement in the Daily News for an estate in Bayswater, Western Australia was probably the largest ever real estate advertisement in Western Australia at the time? Source: May, Catherine (2013). Changes they've seen : the city and people of Bayswater 1827-2013. Morley, W.A.: City of Bayswater. p. 33. ISBN 9780646596082. – When we next hear of Location U in July 1885, Rogers has transformed it, at least for publicity purposes, into a rural paradise of five-acre lots named 'The Bayswater Estate', and presented it to the public in probably the largest land sale advertisement to appear in the conservative Western Australia press.¹⁸ Endnotes: 18. Daily News, 9 July 1885.
- ALT2:... that Mertome Village in Bayswater, Western Australia was the first aged care complex to be built by a local government in Australia? Source: May, Catherine (2013). Changes they've seen : the city and people of Bayswater 1827-2013. Morley, W.A.: City of Bayswater. p. 280. ISBN 9780646596082. – Mertome Village was the first aged care persons complex in Australia to be built by a local government body, with the aid of newly available Commonwealth funding.
- ALT3:... that 33 houses were resumed for railway marshalling yards in Bayswater, Western Australia during the 1950s, but the marshalling yards were never built? Source: May, Catherine (2013). Changes they've seen : the city and people of Bayswater 1827-2013. Morley, W.A.: City of Bayswater. p. 236. ISBN 9780646596082. – Shortly afterwards, Bayswater was threatened with the placement of the railway marshalling yards about to be relocated from East Perth within its boundaries ... Nevertheless, the land was resumed, thirty-three houses demolished or shifted to other places ... After several years more suburban growth, the Stephenson Plan recommended that the planned site be changed.⁴⁶ This was no doubt a happy development for the district...

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Improved to Good Article status by Steelkamp (talk). Self-nominated at 10:35, 28 June 2021 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems: - "Road" section is not sourced, but appears to have been derived from an accurate map

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: - Not done
Overall: Waiting for QPQ. I think ALT2 is the best hook. It refers to a subject that is probably more interesting to a broad international audience than the other hooks, and is also topical due to the Covid pandemic. Bahnfrend (talk) 12:23, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

QPQ is not needed as I have only one other DYK nomination (Template:Did you know nominations/Wilson Tucker (politician). I have added google maps as a source for the road section of the article. Steelkamp (talk) 12:57, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Okay, so now ready to go. Bahnfrend (talk) 06:38, 24 July 2021 (UTC)