Template:Did you know nominations/Fort Washington Park (Manhattan)
- 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:12, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
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Fort Washington Park (Manhattan)
Lighthouse in Fort Washington Park
- ... that Fort Washington Park contains Manhattan's only remaining lighthouse, located under the George Washington Bridge? Source: NYC Parks: Lighthouse, Patch
- ALT1:... that Fort Washington Park contains a lighthouse under a bridge, a two-story shelter, and a bike path that leads nowhere? Source: NYC Parks: Lighthouse, NYC Parks: History, NY Times
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Heather Olmstead
- Comment: One paragraph comes from the Fort Tryon Park article, which was expanded within the past 7 days. I may also have some additional hooks available later.
5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 00:08, 28 September 2019 (UTC).
A fine expansion. Article has been beefed up from 877 bytes to 8,280, easily more than five times and indeed closer to ten. Hook is interesting; I assume patch.com is a reliable source (although the piece seems to be travel promotion, the plain and dry fact of it being the only remaining lighthouse in Manhatten and situated under the GW Bridge is easily verifiable). No copyvio concerns - the tool complains about close paraphrasing of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society's full title, which I don't think is appropriate. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 16:14, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
I have pulled this from the queue as it appears there are at least two other extant lighthouses in Manhattan, Blackwell Island Light and the Titanic Memorial (New York City). Pinging Epicgenius and Ritchie333. Please note that when checking claims of exclusivity like this, it's important to double check them with a google search as such claims are often erroneous. The ALT hook also has an issue in that the lighthouse is not actually "under" the bridge, but "in its shadow", so I couldn't use it, and IMO the hook is not all that great anyhow. Gatoclass (talk) 12:52, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Gatoclass: Thanks for the catch. However, the Titanic Memorial (New York City) isn't an actual lighthouse, while Blackwell Island Light is on Roosevelt Island. Moreover, NYC Parks does say that the lighthouse is under the bridge, and the NY Times mentions that the lighthouse is in the shadow of the bridge (basically a roundabout way of saying "underneath"). So the original hook actually can be changed slightly:
- ALT2 ... that Fort Washington Park contains a lighthouse located under the George Washington Bridge? Source: NYC Parks: Lighthouse
- @Gatoclass: forgot to sign my above comment. epicgenius (talk) 14:37, 24 October 2019 (UTC)
- @Gatoclass: Thanks for the catch. However, the Titanic Memorial (New York City) isn't an actual lighthouse, while Blackwell Island Light is on Roosevelt Island. Moreover, NYC Parks does say that the lighthouse is under the bridge, and the NY Times mentions that the lighthouse is in the shadow of the bridge (basically a roundabout way of saying "underneath"). So the original hook actually can be changed slightly:
Let me suggest
- ALT2 ... that there is a lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge in Fort Washington Park?