Talk:Alley Pond Park
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Yoninah in topic Did you know nomination
 | Alley Pond Park has been listed as one of the Sports and recreation good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. Review: May 28, 2020. (Reviewed version). |
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 | A fact from Alley Pond Park appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 June 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- 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 Yoninah (talk) 22:23, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
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- ... that an 1870s-era windmill, threatened with demolition, was relocated to Alley Pond Park to be preserved, only to be burned down two years later? Source: NY Times 1988
- ALT1:... that Alley Pond Park contains the Queens Giant, the tallest carefully measured tree in New York City, measuring 133.8 feet (40.8 m) tall with a 19-foot (5.8 m) circumference? Source: NY Times 2004
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/MkLeo
- Comment: More hooks pending
Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 15:35, 30 May 2020 (UTC).
Substantial article, meeting of GA criteria implicates DYK pass. QPQ has been completed. Hooks are short enough for DYK and interesting; personally prefer ALT0. Hooks are cited, AGF on paywalled sources. Morgan695 (talk) 23:56, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
