Template:Did you know nominations/1886 St. Croix river log jam
- 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:37, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
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1886 St. Croix River log jam
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Log jam at the Dalles of the St. Croix
... that the 1886 St. Croix River log jam was a major tourist attraction, with thousands of visitors brought by special excursion trains?"Saint Croix NSR: Historic Resource Study (Chapter 2)". npshistory.com. Retrieved 2019-12-02.- ALT1
... that the 1886 St. Croix River log jam started after the Clam River dam was dynamited by hermit Robert Davidson?"The Taylor's Falls Journal of Thursday contains the following log jam paragraphs". Stillwater messenger. 1886-06-19. see talk page
- Comment: More exciting hook suggestions welcome.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tom Smith (confectioner)
Moved to mainspace by Kusma (talk). Self-nominated at 10:54, 3 December 2019 (UTC).
Interesting event, on good sources, no copyvio obvious. The image is licensed and fitting, but a bit hard to read in that size. How about using "jammedest jam"? in a hook? please format the bare url ref. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:09, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt, thank you for reviewing. I haven't found the original source for the "jammedest jam", so I've not suggested that. I'm trying to work a bit more on the "hermit" angle now, following a very useful talk page discussion with Valereee. For the image, do you think any of the others available here work in small size? —Kusma (t·c) 16:17, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
- ALT2 ... that the 1886 St. Croix River log jam (pictured) was described as the worst log jam in history and "the jammedest jam"?McMahon, Eileen M.; Karamanski, Theodore J. (2009-10-20). North Woods River: The St. Croix River in Upper Midwest History. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-299-23423-2. --evrik (talk) 17:41, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
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... that the 1886 St. Croix River log jam, described as the worst log jam in history, started after the Clam River dam was dynamited out of spite?--evrik (talk) 19:13, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
- I still feel responsible for this review, and like ALT2, but think we should decide for one of the two, "worst" or "jammedest". Kusma, what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:22, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
- "Jammedest" sounds tastier. I would like to include something other than "biggest/worst" (as that is always debatable) so I'm partial to something close to ALT0/ALT3, but I am generally terrible with suggesting hooky hooks, so you should probably do the exact opposite of what I think ;) —Kusma (t·c) 21:47, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
- Well, my reputation in hook-making is not the best, but here you go: I approve ALT2 and its subset, to give prep-builders a choice. I also added "pictured".
- ALT2a ... that the 1886 St. Croix River log jam (pictured) was described as "the jammedest jam"?
--Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:20, 5 December 2019 (UTC)
- "Jammedest" sounds tastier. I would like to include something other than "biggest/worst" (as that is always debatable) so I'm partial to something close to ALT0/ALT3, but I am generally terrible with suggesting hooky hooks, so you should probably do the exact opposite of what I think ;) —Kusma (t·c) 21:47, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
- I still feel responsible for this review, and like ALT2, but think we should decide for one of the two, "worst" or "jammedest". Kusma, what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:22, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
