Template:Did you know nominations/Charles Blackwell (engineer)

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:31, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Charles Blackwell (engineer)

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• ... that civil engineer Charles Blackwell was the third Blackwell (after his father and his grandfather) to be elected to the Institution of Civil Engineers? Source: as per last sentence of "Career" section, three individual refs.

• Reviewed: Pending

Created by MIDI (talk). Self-nominated at 20:55, 1 November 2019 (UTC).

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: Well-researched and interesting article; thank you for creating this. Just 2 issues: the QPQ to be completed, and two disambigs, Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad, and Pittsburg. Storye book (talk) 19:45, 2 November 2019 (UTC)

• Re the disambigs: I believe "Pittsburg" should be Pittsburgh (because Schoenberger Steel Company was in Pittsburgh Pa.), and "Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad" should be Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway (1886–1899), which does not yet have an article. Storye book (talk) 10:39, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
• Re your Rootsweb reference (currently ref.7): Rootsweb is not authoritative because a lot of its pages are working theories uploaded by individual family historians. Do you have alternative citations? If none are available, may I suggest that you replace the Rootsweb citation with a note to the effect that this is a possible ancestry? If you want to do that: under Notes subheading use {{Reflist|group=nb}}, and for the note itself use {{refn|insert note here|group=nb}} Storye book (talk) 11:03, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

• Thanks. Made the changes—just my QPQ to do. MIDI (talk) 21:49, 3 November 2019 (UTC)

• Excellent. Well done for finding an alternative source - not always easy. Storye book (talk) 09:38, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

• QPQ review: Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of the North Inch. MIDI (talk) 11:11, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

• Thank you. Good to go. Storye book (talk) 12:37, 4 November 2019 (UTC)