Talk:Leipzig Prison

A fact from Leipzig Prison appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 October 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that from 1960 to 1981, executions in East Germany took place in Leipzig Prison in the middle of a residential area?

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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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 06:27, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Entrance to the execution site

... that from 1960 to 1981, executions in East Germany took place in Leipzig Prison in the middle of a residential area? Source: Several, for example [1]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Never Stop (film)
Comment: Happy about hook improvement ideas.

Moved to mainspace by Kusma (talk). Self-nominated at 21:37, 4 October 2021 (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: Looks good to me. Quite a fucked-up part of history! I do think that a better hook is possible, although none spring to mind immediately. jp×g 08:15, 5 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just noting that I've also nominated Werner Teske, final person to be executed here, for DYK. Could be combined, could run separately. —Kusma (talk) 13:17, 6 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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