Template:Did you know nominations/Children of Israel Cemetery
- 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) 16:58, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
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Children of Israel Cemetery
- ... that following decades of repairs due to vandalism and falling headstones in the Children of Israel Cemetery in Winnipeg, Canada, maintenance is now limited to "mowing the grass"? Source: "Twenty years ago, after a large number of gravestones had been knocked over by weather and vandals, officials of Shaarey Zedek Synagogue met with seven descendants...and a legal transaction was made to transfer the responsibility to the synagogue." (The Jewish Post; "(Note: CSZ also administers the Children of Israel cemetery in Transcona but the costs of doing so are minimal and limited to mowing the grass)" Building a New Shul–An Interim Report from the Kehilla Committee)
Created by Yoninah (talk). Self-nominated at 19:59, 27 June 2020 (UTC).
This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:31, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
