Talk:Metropolitan (bar)

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:01, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

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Metropolitan in Brooklyn, New York

• ... that the New York City gay bar Metropolitan (pictured) sits on a site formerly occupied by a colonial-era cemetery? Source: 1
  • ALT1:... that the New York City gay bar Metropolitan (pictured) sits on a site formerly occupied by a colonial-era cemetery and a Prohibition-era speakeasy? Source: 1

• Reviewed: Hallucinate (song)
• Comment: ALT0 has potential as a hook for Halloween, if needed.

Created by Morgan695 (talk). Self-nominated at 21:48, 19 October 2020 (UTC).

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

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: ALT0 is more concise and would work pretty well for Halloween (though it may possibly be worth noting that the bar only occupies part of the former cemetery's site, per the source). Per WP:DYK#Cited hook, I've copied the reference to the end of the sentence mentioning the hook fact. Great work on this page! This is good to go after you provide a QPQ. epicgenius (talk) 22:07, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: Thank you for the speedy review. QPQ has been completed. Morgan695 (talk) 22:40, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Looks good to go now. epicgenius (talk) 23:03, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

• @Morgan695: I was going to promote this to the October 31 set because, well, it's just like promoting it to any set. But based on the source, I wonder if you want to write a more obvious Halloween-themed hook. You will need to add in the fact they used to store the beer and wine in the basement, and you have:
• ALT2: ... that at the Metropolitan, a gay bar that sits on a plot formerly occupied by a colonial-era cemetery, the spirits flow both upstairs and below-ground? Yoninah (talk) 19:08, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

• The "spirits flow" part is confusing divorced from the context of the original article. I'd prefer one of the original hooks, even if that makes it unsuitable for an Oct 31 post date. Morgan695 (talk) 20:06, 21 October 2020 (UTC)

• OK. Yoninah (talk) 20:58, 21 October 2020 (UTC)