Talk:23rd Street viaduct

This article was nominated for deletion on 24 November 2023. The result of the discussion was keep.

A fact from 23rd Street viaduct appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 December 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that police were stationed on the new Kansas Avenue Bridge to prevent streetcar rails from being laid down?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/23rd Street viaduct.

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Did you know nomination

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 18:04, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that police were stationed on the new Kansas Avenue Bridge to prevent streetcar rails from being laid down? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-kansas-city-star-may-cut-three-met/135733260/
- ALT1: ... that Kansas built a bridge to Missouri, which lacked money to build its approach? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-weekly-gazette-globe-missouris-dela/135696397/
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Altar of Consus
- Comment: WP:HEY rescue from AfD.

5x expanded by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 02:23, 27 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/23rd Street viaduct; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

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

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems: - The page is currently up for AFD, so that discussion will have to be closed first before this nomination can be approved.

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Sammi Brie: Nice work on expanding this article. The only thing holding this nomination up is the AFD, which looks to be trending toward a consensus to keep; nonetheless, please let me know when this article's AFD closes. Epicgenius (talk) 16:04, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Epicgenius: The AfD has now closed. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 00:19, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- Good to go. Epicgenius (talk) 00:30, 3 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]