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A fact from New Galloway Town Hall appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 August 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that New Galloway Town Hall's clock mechanism was replaced in 1872 because the original was "utterly worthless as a time keeper"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/New Galloway Town Hall.

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 08:25, 29 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that New Galloway Town Hall's clock mechanism was replaced in 1872 because the original was "utterly worthless as a time keeper"? Source: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland book: "The existing clock-mechanism was made in 1872 by Gillett and Bland of Croydon to replace an early clock, now in the Stewartry Museum at Kirkcudbright, which by then was considered 'utterly worthless ... as a Time Keeper'."
- ALT1: ... that New Galloway Town Hall, when it was in use as a gaol, distinguished between criminals and debtors by giving them cells of different sizes? Source: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland book: "In 1837 there was one room for criminals and a larger one for debtors, both on the first floor."
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Alexander Armstrong (Royal Navy officer)
- Comment: Created in user space on 17 July, moved into article space on 25 July.

Moved to mainspace by Girth Summit (talk). Self-nominated at 17:29, 25 July 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: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Both hooks are interesting. Thanks for your work on the article, Girth Summit.

Ref 3 is showing "sfn error: no target:" - not sure the best way to fix this, as the target site isn't dated.
I think that "REBUILT AND ENLARGED 1875" should be taken out of all caps per MOS:CONFORM, but willing to be persuaded otherwise.
Might be worth adding something to qualify the last para in the history section, e.g. "as of" or "it was reported in 2022" just to futureproof the article a bit.

Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 11:13, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

BennyOnTheLoose - I've made the tweaks you suggested, but I can't see the issue with Ref 3 - I'm not getting any sfn errors. I was playing around with the references earlier today, perhaps you looked at it while I was doing that - any chance you could take another look and see if the problem is still there? Girth Summit _(blether) 12:25, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Girth Summit: One of the scripts I have installed still shows sfn error: no target: CITEREFHistoric_Environment_Scotland:High_Street,_Town_Hall (help) with a link to here for me, but I checked and no error shows whan I'm logged out, so not an issue. Approving. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 13:38, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

BennyOnTheLoose, thanks for that. I use User:Trappist the monk/HarvErrors.js, and it still isn't showing me anything; the links appear to work when I hover my cursor over the reference number, so I think it's fine - maybe an issue with the script you're running? Girth Summit _(blether) 13:46, 26 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]