Talk:Wises Landing, Kentucky

A fact from Wises Landing, Kentucky appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 June 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the post office for Wises Landing, Kentucky, was established in June 1878 but did not receive a postmaster until January 1879?

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@Uncle G: - Do you think there's enough here for DYK? (it meets the expansion and length requirements) Not quite a full history, but I didn't have a whole lot of work with. Scott is a republishing of a history produced by the local paper in the 1980s, so that source should be RS, IMO. Hog Farm _Talk 03:00, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hog Farm, my uncle called on me. Go for it! It's a great little article and I appreciate the map (but what a slightly larger one look like? )It's long enough (not new, but 5x expansion and more than 1500 characters). I had a quick look at the sourcing and it looks fine to me. Rennick is a MS but I don't find that problematic. I'd like to hear a bit more about the power plant (coal) and what the nature of the complaints were, of course. The operator claims it's super clean and all that, and I'm also interested to hear whether there is any truth to that. But anyway, yes, go ahead and nominate it and ping me when you do, because I have pretty much already reviewed it. You might could write a hook about destruction--two floods and the construction of the power plant. Take care, Drmies (talk) 14:39, 27 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Hog Farm, did you see this? You're a shining star! Drmies (talk) 13:19, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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 Desertarun (talk) 15:41, 5 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the community of Wises Landing, Kentucky was affected by two floods and the construction of a power plant? Refs 4 and 11 inline
- ALT1:... that the post office for Wises Landing, Kentucky was established in June 1878 but did not receive a postmaster until January 1879? Ref 5 inline

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Quesabirria
Comment: Expanded from 98 bytes to 2331 of readable prose (text-only). Pinging Drmies who performed an informal review on the article's talk page. Hog Farm _Talk 05:54, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

5x expanded by Hog Farm (talk). Self-nominated at 05:54, 28 May 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Setting my uncle's comments aside (well, they're already below), this is an easy pass: the expansion is good, the material is sourced, the writing is just fine, the image is properly licensed. I think the first hook is more exciting than the second. Hog Farm, if you want to roll with it right now, that's great; if you want to incorporate material supplied by my uncle and take one of his hooks, then quick quick remove the "tick" symbol, and we can slow this down. Drmies (talk) 13:26, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The 1930s authorization of the road from US42 to Wises Landing can be found in the published 1932 Acts of the General Assembly. Kaukas 1961 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFKaukas1961 (help) apparently has how difficult it was to travel from river landing to ridges along Barebone Creek (not mentioned but important for clarity about Corn Creek) before that. A more consolidated source is Rennick 2000t, pp. 3–4 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFRennick2000t (help) from the Federal Writers' Project County Histories which notes another possibility for the name and also notes that there's a precursor to Corn Creek and the question about why Corn Creek isn't actually at Corn Creek. Rennick 2000t, p. 24 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFRennick2000t (help) has the correspondence and information about the general store and family landholdings. You can also clarify from the Environmental Impact Statement to the International Energy Agency that it wasn't just vaguely the "community" that was affected. The actual creek was affected. The lower part of Corn Creek had to be relocated. WPA 1939t, p. 2 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFWPA1939t (help) notes against Wise's Landing the existence of a Baptist church, up Corn Creek. Hence:
ALT2: ... that Corn Creek isn't actually at Corn Creek but at Wises Landing, Kentucky, although it once was?
ALT3: ... that Corn Creek isn't actually at Corn Creek but at Wises Landing, Kentucky unlike Corn Creek Church where John Taylor was stationed for 13 years?
Uncle G (talk) 11:10, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- Uncle G - Thanks for adding that information! I wound up being pretty busy today and didn't get a chance to add it. Hog Farm _Talk 02:41, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]