Template:Did you know nominations/Ontario Highway 45

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:11, 3 December 2020 (UTC)

Ontario Highway 45

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Highway 45 under construction near Fenella in 1950

... that Ontario Highway 45 was assumed by the Department of Highways, predecessor to the modern Ministry of Transportation, on September 1, 1937, following the gravel-surfaced Cobourg–Norwood Road?Source: "Appendix 3 - Schedule of Assumptions and Reversions of Sections". Annual Report (Report). Department of Highways. March 31, 1938. p. 81.

Created/expanded by Floydian (talk). Self-nominated at 17:06, 15 November 2020 (UTC).

Satisfies newness and length requirements for DYK, having previously been just a re-direct. The hook source is offline, accepted AGF. QPQ needs to be satisfied, otherwise ready to be passed. JGHowes ^talk 18:14, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

QPQ - reviewed Magnificat (Penderecki) - Floydian ^τ _¢ 18:58, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

~~Good to go.~~ File:ON 45 south of Finella.jpg has an appropriate free license; recommend Floydian consider transferring it from en-wiki to Commons. JGHowes ^talk 19:35, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I came by to promote this, but it really is not hooky. It sounds like a news brief. Can you word it in a more interesting way, or suggest a different angle? Yoninah (talk) 18:39, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

I'm not sure if there is anything any better I can do. Normally I can offer up something better, but this is a pretty unremarkable road. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 22:51, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

@Floydian: the only thing I could see is something like:
ALT1: ... that following the Common Sense Revolution, the entire route of Ontario Highway 45 was downloaded from provincial oversight and redesignated as County Road 45? Yoninah (talk) 23:00, 28 November 2020 (UTC)

Works for me! - Floydian ^τ _¢ 19:48, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Thanks. Pinging original reviewer JGHowes to take a look at ALT1. Yoninah (talk) 19:53, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Yes, that Alt1 hook indeed adds to the DYK. No doubt more than one reader steeped in computerese like myself will be curious how one "downloads" a road. JGHowes ^talk 21:10, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

This is the word the page creator used. @Floydian: can it be linked to a Wikipedia page? Or should it be tweaked? Yoninah (talk) 21:15, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

The en-wiki disambg page points to decommissioned highway, so I had added "...the latter also referred to as downloading" to that article's Lead. JGHowes ^talk 21:48, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

@JGHowes: Thank you! Can you give ALT1 a tick? Yoninah (talk) 22:04, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

I have an intention of making an article. However, there is a section in Highways in Ontario that would be an ideal link. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 01:51, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Good to go with ALT1 hook. JGHowes ^talk 22:14, 29 November 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, Floydian. I'll change the link in the hook and article. Yoninah (talk) 11:30, 30 November 2020 (UTC)