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University of California, Santa Barbara Library

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as 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

• ... that a first edition of Darwin's On the Origin of Species is in the collection of the University of California, Santa Barbara Library?
• ... ALT 1: that the University of California, Santa Barbara Library plans to undergo a seismic retrofit and other renovations and expansions from January 2012 to summer 2014?

• Reviewed: Army Substance Abuse Program.

5x expanded by Neutrality (talk). Self nom at 20:02, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Please add a comment and signature (or just a signature if endorsing) after each aspect you have reviewed:
Hook

• Length, format, content rules: Gamaliel (talk) 20:59, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
• Source: Good hook and the citations check out. Gamaliel (talk) 20:57, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
• Interest: Gamaliel (talk) 20:59, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
• Image suitability, if applicable: n/a
• ALT hooks, if proposed:

Article

• Length: Gamaliel (talk) 21:00, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
• Vintage: Currently a bit short of x5 unfortunately, according to DYK Check. Gamaliel (talk) 20:57, 26 July 2011 (UTC) Gamaliel (talk) 18:26, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
• Sourcing (V, RS, BLP): Gamaliel (talk) 21:15, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
• Neutrality: Gamaliel (talk) 21:00, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
• Plagiarism/close paraphrasing: Gamaliel (talk) 21:15, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
• Copyvio: Gamaliel (talk) 21:15, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
• Obvious faults in prose, structure, formatting:

Comments/discussion:

Suggestions for expansion to x5:

• Might want to include more about the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Collection, because that think tank has connections to numerous interesting people.
• The Foot Library has 13th century bibles and other incunabula.
• Cult Awareness Network papers
• http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=1980
• Relative campus locations of the various library buildings.

To clarify Gamaliel's comment about the expansion: the article was 1471 characters before expansion started, and 4882 now (these numbers come from User:Dr pda/prosesize.js). This is only about 3.5-fold expansion. rʨanaɢ (talk) 00:42, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

I expanded the article further - should be five-times expansion at this point Neutrality^talk 03:26, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

The original hook is better than ALT1. ALT1 sounds a little bit spammy (unintentionally I'm sure), and besides a library getting renovations is not all that unusual. rʨanaɢ (talk) 10:40, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

The idea is to mention the seismic retrofit - these are not common in areas where there isn't a big fault line like in North California. Neutrality^talk 13:44, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Good to go. I also have a preference for the original hook. Gamaliel (talk) 18:26, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

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