- 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 Bruxton talk 16:39, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
Hell Gate Bridge
The main span of the Hell Gate Bridge
- ... that the main span of the Hell Gate Bridge, once the world's largest arch bridge, was almost built as a cantilever bridge? Source: "Construction of the New York Connecting Railroad: Ten Mile Line Involving Large Bridges and Viaducts Will Connect the Pennsylvania and New Haven". Railway Age Gazette. Vol. 57, no. 20. November 13, 1914. p. 890; Jablow, Valerie (October 1999). "Othmar Ammann's Glory". Smithsonian. Vol. 30, no. 7. pp. 34, 36, 38.
5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 23:51, 8 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Hell Gate Bridge; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
- Epicgenius please note that as the emergency backlog mode has been activated and you have more than 20 nominations, you will need to provide two QPQs. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 01:36, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
- @AirshipJungleman29: I guess I should've seen this coming, given the length of the DYK nominations page. I've swapped my single QPQ for a double review. Epicgenius (talk) 02:12, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
General: Article is new enough and long enough
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Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
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Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
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Overall: Article meets the necessary DYK requirements. Hooks are also good, and I favor ALT1 and ALT2 about equally, followed by ALT3 and then ALT0 (which I don't think would be that interesting to a general audience). SounderBruce 04:19, 9 March 2024 (UTC)