Template:Did you know nominations/Brown County Courthouse (South Dakota)

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:30, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Brown County Courthouse (South Dakota) edit

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... ~~that the Brown County Courthouse in South Dakota is built of Berea Sandstone from Ohio?~~ Source: "The Berea sandstone used on the walls was quarried near Cleveland, Ohio." https://npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/76001718.pdf

Reviewed: Flag of North Korea, Prime number

Moved to mainspace by Chris857 (talk). Self-nominated at 05:43, 11 February 2018 (UTC).

Newly created article, article of accepted length, well cited hook, use of fair images, QPQ done. RRD (talk) 08:20, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

This doesn't strike me as a very interesting hook. Isn't there something more interesting to say about this building? Gatoclass (talk) 15:34, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

How about these?

ALT1: ... ~~that a street was removed for the construction of South Dakota's Brown County Courthouse?~~ "...two half blocks having been secured and a street vacated for the site." https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045366/1904-02-06/ed-1/seq-12/
ALT2: ... ~~that the predecessor of South Dakota's Brown County Courthouse was demolished a year after it was replaced?~~

Chris857 (talk) 04:58, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

I'm not too crazy about the ALTs either Chris, though admittedly I can't see an obvious hook for this article myself. I did consider perhaps going back to the original hook on the basis that maybe Berea sandstone was unusual in some way, but it turns out the link is to a geographical formation in West Virginia. I guess we will have to go with one of the ALTs then. Gatoclass (talk) 10:26, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

@Gatoclass: While working on this article, I also started on a draft to expand Berea Sandstone (it covers at least four states, not just WV, so the stub is not very good) but it's been slow going there. Chris857 (talk) 14:52, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Chris, are you likely to get your Berea sandstone article completed any time soon? If so, we could wait a few days for you to do so. Gatoclass (talk) 12:18, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

@Gatoclass: I will have a lot more free time starting tomorrow and may be able to get somewhere on the sandstone. Chris857 (talk) 17:32, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Compared to the ALTs, I personally find the initial first hook as the most interesting and intriguing. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 06:56, 21 February 2018 (UTC)

Once things have settled a little in the article, Berea Sandstone might itself be able to be bolded as being eligible for DYK - it has the length now - but I'll have to see that it has enough new content separate from other articles, and there's still a CN tag and a bunch more to add to fill it out further beyond a stub. Chris857 (talk) 06:01, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

@Gatoclass:

I'm now nominating Berea Sandstone for DYK, so for the courthouse article, the hook could now be:

ALT3:... that the Brown County Courthouse in South Dakota is built of Berea Sandstone from Ohio?

I think I've added the necessary pieces to this nomination for the second article. I now owe this nomination a 2nd QPQ. Chris857 (talk) 05:12, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

2nd QPQ done. Chris857 (talk) 17:43, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

I have made all the usual checks on the new Berea Sandstone article including length, newness, copyvio, citation etc. and it looks fine to me, so ALT3 it is. Well done on the expansion, Chris! Gatoclass (talk) 06:46, 10 March 2018 (UTC)