Template:Did you know nominations/Riverfront Park (Spokane, Washington)

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 21:37, 29 May 2020 (UTC)

Riverfront Park (Spokane, Washington)

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Riverfront Park in Spokane, Washington

... that railroad tracks and trestles once covered Riverfront Park, the 100-acre (40 ha) legacy site of Expo '74 that features the largest urban waterfall in the United States? Source: "...hosted pavilions on the 100-acre site. The original impetus of the fair was to clean up and reclaim the land alongside the mighty falls of the Spokane River, which for decades had been clogged with railroad tracks, trestles, and warehouses...After the fair closed, the site was revamped to become Riverfront Park, today the city's downtown showcase and gathering spot." [1]) and "you’ll find numerous viewpoints of the Spokane Falls, the largest urban waterfall in the United States" [2]
- ALT1:... that the 100-acre (40 ha) Riverfront Park in Spokane, Washington was once covered by railroad tracks and trestles, but was transformed to host the first environmentally-themed World's fair? Source: ..."hosted pavilions on the 100-acre site. The original impetus of the fair was to clean up and reclaim the land alongside the mighty falls of the Spokane River, which for decades had been clogged with railroad tracks, trestles, and warehouses...After the fair closed, the site was revamped to become Riverfront Park, today the city's downtown showcase and gathering spot." [3]) and "Expo ‘74, the first environmentally themed World’s Fair, opened in Spokane in May of 1974" [4]
- ALT2:... that a garbage-eating sculpture in Riverfront Park caused an uproar from goat farmers when it was installed, concerned that it perpetuated the false stereotype that goats eat anything? Source: ..."The Dairy Goat Journal, called the vacuum system disguised as a goat a “degrading, debasing, and grossly misleading” addition to the fair. Dairy goats, another letter-writer argued, were “most fastidious in their eating habits.” Writing to The Spokane Chronicle, John R. Hollister of Deer Park said that the public needed to be educated “to the fact that a goat should be properly fed like any other creature." [5] and "the garbage goat did get Turnbull into some trouble. It was written about in a dairy goat publication many years ago, and she got some heated communications from dairy goat owners who were rather put out at the notion of a dairy goat eating garbage" [6]

5x expanded by Jdubman (talk). Self-nominated at 08:28, 17 May 2020 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing: - Some of the claims need citations, e.g. Its location immediately north of the downtown core also creates a distinct urban edge, similar to edges created by other urban parks such as Grant and Millenium Parks in Chicago and Central Park in New York City. There are other paragraphs which also don't have sources.
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems: - I slightly modified the hooks to display the name of the park, because Jeopardy!-style wordings like this [[Riverfront Park (Spokane, Washington)|urban park]] are unlikely to make it to the Main Page in that state

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: @Jdubman: Great work on the article, there are just a few things to address. epicgenius (talk) 03:04, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for the review Epicgenius. Great point on the hook format - the proposed revisions look good and I've updated the primary hook per your suggested format. I've also went back through and added more references where they were sparse and believe the issue is now fixed. I would appreciate another look at it. Thanks again. Jdubman (talk) 04:59, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

@Jdubman: no problem.

Since all the paragraphs are sourced, the citation criteria seem to have been met. Unlike good articles, DYK pages don't need cites at the end of every sentence, just at least one per paragraph. So this is good to go. epicgenius (talk) 13:36, 27 May 2020 (UTC)