Talk:Oakwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama)

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A fact from Oakwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 24 March 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Oakwood Cemetery contains the graves of Confederate soldiers and officers, English, Canadian, and French World War II pilots, and Hank Williams?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Oakwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama).

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Land swap

In case anyone comes wondering about this in the future: There's a map at the end of Yawn 2017. Parcel 2 is what the Archdiocese got from the city. Parcel 1 is what the city got from the Archidocese, including the access road to the east and the land to the south onto which the city has in fact since widened Upper Wetumpka Road, making it one way along the entrances; annoyingly the wrong way for the old directions in Stanton 2003, p. 262 to now work, although their general sense of the entrance ways is still correct. Uncle G (talk) 07:00, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 12:04, 17 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama, contains graves of Confederate soldiers and officers and World War 2 pilots from England, Canada, and France, and the grave of Hank Williams? Source: This has Williams and Confederate officers; Confederate soldiers are in here and here; the pilots are in here.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/King Tornado football

Created by Drmies (talk) and Uncle G (talk). Nominated by Drmies (talk) at 23:26, 10 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Oakwood Cemetery (Montgomery, Alabama); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Reviewing today. Cielquiparle (talk) 09:03, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Interesting article. New enough (nominated within 3 days of creation); very long (12,166 characters). Article is well-sourced (including some offline sources) and neutral in tone. Earwig says copyvio unlikely. Article had several run-on sentences so I have split them. Promoted some of the sub-section headings as well, so please take a look. QPQ is done. Hook is interesting and claims made in hook are explained in the article with citations. Personally I would recommend slightly different punctuation (along the lines below); I believe the proofreading gnomes will take care of that before it appears on the main page.

ALT0a: ... that Oakwood Cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama, contains graves of Confederate soldiers and officers; World War II pilots from England, Canada, and France; and the grave of Hank Williams?

Good to go. Cielquiparle (talk) 22:31, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]