Talk:Laflin station

A fact from Laflin station appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 October 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Chicago "L"'s Laflin station had an elevator for caskets?

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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 SL93 (talk) 03:09, 28 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the Chicago "L"'s Laflin station had an elevator for caskets? Source: https://www.chicago-l.org/stations/laflin.html
ALT1 ... that a rail accident by the Chicago "L"'s newly-opened Laflin station seriously injured two oilers? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111516345/collision-on-the-metropolitan/
- Reviewed: Kopka River

Created by John M Wolfson (talk). Self-nominated at 12:37, 18 October 2022 (UTC).[reply]

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

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

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

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Prefer the first hook as it's more interesting than an rail accident which's way too common. Gerald WL 16:54, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]