Talk:Coon Rapids Dam

Coon Rapids Dam is currently a Geography good article nominee. Nominated by ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} at 02:51, 3 November 2024 (UTC)

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Short description: Dam on the Mississippi River

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A fact from Coon Rapids Dam appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 July 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Coon Rapids Dam on the Mississippi River is the northern terminus of the river's navigable portion?

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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 15:35, 16 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Coon Rapids Dam on the Mississippi River is the northern terminus of the river's navigable portion?

Source: Anfinson, John (2003). River of History: A Historic Resources Study of the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area (PDF). Retrieved 25 June 2024.

Reviewed: Snow Bowl (1985)
Comment: ~~QPQ to come.~~

Created by Darth Stabro (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 50 past nominations.

Pbritti (talk) 04:22, 26 June 2024 (UTC).[reply]

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

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing: - The sentences "One of the original steel gates is available for viewing on the Anoka County side of the dam." and "The dam connects to Elm Creek Park Reserve via the Rush Creek Regional Trail." are unsourced.
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Darth Stabro and Pbritti: Nice work on this article. There are just a few issues that need to be fixed. Epicgenius (talk) 15:04, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Epicgenius: Thanks for the review! I think the issues have been addressed. ~ Pbritti (talk) 16:06, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good to go now. Epicgenius (talk) 16:13, 29 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]