Template:Did you know nominations/Telegraph Plateau

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:25, 19 May 2020 (UTC)

Telegraph Plateau

  • ... that Telegraph Plateau was so named because it seemed to be an ideal route for the proposed transatlantic telegraph cable? Source: Rozwadoski, p. 86 "Results from Brooke's sounders confirmed Maury's initial judgement that the ocean floor at the great circle was uniquely suited for safely holding telegraph wires. Berryman's northernmost soundings, about nineteen of them, suggested to Maury the presence of a relatively shallow steppe, which he optimistically christened "Telegraph Plateau".

Created by Spinningspark (talk). Self-nominated at 14:41, 22 April 2020 (UTC).


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice little article. Good to go. Gog the Mild (talk) 18:29, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

  • Please add an inline cite for the hook fact. Yoninah (talk) 17:44, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
  • There is already an inline cite in the article. If your issue is that you wanted the cite duplicated in the previous sentence, that is a little overly bureaucratic, especially as I have quoted the source verbatim above, but I have added it anyway. If your issue is that you wanted to see the cite in the lead, that is the second time you have raised that on one of my DYKs; it has long been the practice that cites are not normally needed in the lead because it is merely a summary of the article. SpinningSpark 21:36, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
  • Thank you for adding the inline cite in exactly the right place. Of course I didn't mean to add it in the lead. And sure, you can always remove it if you want after it appears on the main page. Look, I'm just trying to make sure all the rules are covered when I build prep sets so nothing will be challenged by a promoting administrator. Sorry I keep finding problems in your articles. Restoring tick for offline source per Gog the Mild's review. Yoninah (talk) 22:00, 19 May 2020 (UTC)