Template:Did you know nominations/John Halle's Hall
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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:16, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
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John Halle's Hall
- ... that the medieval John Halle's Hall (pictured) is the foyer of a cinema? Source: [1][2]
Created by Stronach (talk). Self-nominated at 11:14, 30 November 2021 (UTC).
@Stronach: 4th DYK - QPQ not required just yet. Hook interesting enough and cited, article generally well-referenced. There's a single uncited sentence about the "this almost certainly" - sounds like author's inference to me, but for the purpose of this review I will let it pass. I'm fairly concerned about the huge blocks of text copied directly from Historic England and the Pevsner book however - yes, they are quoted, but I'm not comfortable with passing an article with that much direct copy pasting even with attribution. I would say those two quotes are best expressed by the article author. Juxlos (talk) 15:00, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for the comments. Sorry if I've formatted this wrong: I'm rusty and instructions aren't the clearest to dim old me. Also what is QPQ please? To the main meat: the block quotes were there because I don't have the architectural knowledge or the intimate knowledge of the place itself to paraphrase them successfully, as they are so dense and technical, and I haven't found a source that has provided a precis of what's going on architecturally that I can understand to be able to rephrase. Do you think putting them in quote boxes might make it clearer they are quotes?Stronach (talk) 12:49, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- QPQ means you review before you submit - no big deal, but you'd come across it as a requirement quite soon. Regardless it's not where they're placed, it's that quotes literally comprise the entire section. Juxlos (talk) 14:26, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for that! Using a video on Youtube as a visual guide, I've had a go at rewriting, but as so many of the terms are uncertain to me, I'm not sure I've done it correctly. I put the quotes as blockquotes as they have information I haven't used. Stronach (talk) 14:59, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
It still makes up a decent chunk of the section, but good enough. Juxlos (talk) 05:11, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
References
- ^ Historic England. "John Halle's Hall (now forming entrance to the Odeon Cinema (1258229)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 29 November 2021.
- ^ Frogg Moody (7 September 2021). "Salisbury Odeon cinema celebrates 90th birthday". The Salisbury Journal. Salisbury, Wiltshire. Retrieved 29 November 2021.