Template:Did you know nominations/Marblehead Harbor
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The result was: promoted by Orlady (talk) 03:42, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
Marblehead Harbor edit
- ... that Marblehead Harbor, the birthplace of the predecessor of the United States Navy, was also the birthplace of Marine Corps Aviation (type of plane pictured) one hundred years ago today?
- Reviewed: Songs for Dustmites
- Comment: I have requested that this be added to the list of hooks for August 20th, on the talk page.
Created/expanded by Ktr101 (talk). Self nom at 18:53, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
Long enough (just) and new enough. The hook is short enough and interesting. No unduly close paraphrasing detected from the 2 sources used as references. However, the entire paragraph on the outfitting of the first ship for the Continental Navy - which is also half the hook - is unreferenced. (In fact I added the fact that the ship was outfitted at Marblehead to that paragraph based on the lede). The article also has a template stating that some text is taken from a publication in the public domain. Such text does not count toward the 1500 characters needed for DYK eligibility; but in any case I cannot find any text at the page linked in the template that is also in the article. I don't see any mention of Marblehead on that page. Possibly there is a fuller version that I am not seeing, or the URL is wrong? If the first Continental Navy ship was the Hannah, which is what that page is on, then the article needs to have a source stating that the Hannah was outfitted at Marblehead; I suggest using that PD source as the reference if there is another page in it that actually says so, but in that case it needs to be paraphrased/summarized, not reproduced verbatim under PD rules, because then the article will presumably fail the length test. Or was a sentence or two simply left out? Yngvadottir (talk) 15:33, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
- I didn't copy the public domain text (I in fact heavily modified it from text on another page, so I'm just using it to cite it), but this seems to be an issue that could be on the level of nationalist disputes in Europe. In terms of Beverly's claim, there is an unsourced claim on the Hannah's page that states there is an actual plaque that says Marblehead is the place (which might be off of the former USS Marblehead, which was scrapped in Philadelphia), but I can't find anything reliable on the internet to back it up, so I went with that one. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 16:50, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
OK, much as I thought then - the PD template is inapplicable and that source should instead be a reference. I have added more info from that and the Marblehead Magazine source, naming the ship and laying out the case for its being the birthplace of the US Navy. I hope what I've done is accurate. (If not, please make it right!) It's wound up a little longer, and both halves of the claim are now referenced; however, I've now done too much to pass it. So I'm slapping the red bendy arrow on it and will ask at WT:DYK. Assuming someone else agrees that it passes, we'll then need a 3rd person to promote it to prep; ideally an admin, because it should go into Queue 1 or preferably Queue 2. I would be willing to swap it into one of those, but I don't think I can ethically promote it. Yngvadottir (talk) 18:03, 19 August 2012 (UTC)
Good to go with changes by Yngvadottir
