Template:Did you know nominations/Abolitionist Place
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- 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 Valereee (talk) 20:37, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
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Abolitionist Place
- ... that a landmarked house on Abolitionist Place in Downtown Brooklyn may have been a stop on the Underground Railroad?
- QPQ: Template:Did you know nominations/London Hughes: To Catch a D*ck — Rhododendrites talk \\ 18:46, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
- PS: Some alternative images are here (depicting the "landmarked house"): commons:Category:227 Duffield Street. I picked the street sign because it's most eye-catching at small size. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 18:48, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
Created by Rhododendrites (talk). Self-nominated at 00:48, 18 February 2021 (UTC).
- Article is new and long enough, hook is cited to the New York Times appropriately, no copyvio issues, and QPQ is done. Interesting to learn about the Underground Railroad, a topic I had not researched before, so thanks for that. Regarding images, Epicgenius seems to be good at getting hold of images of New York architecture. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:59, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- Ritchie333, thanks for the ping. Since this is in Downtown Brooklyn, I could probably drop by soon to take more images. (Though Rhododendrites is generally better at taking pictures than I am, ironically). Epicgenius (talk) 16:10, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- @Ritchie333 and Epicgenius: What kind of image are you thinking would be ideal? Something older? Again, there are photos of what 227 Duffield looks like today in the category linked above. There is unfortunately a tree directly in front and cars in between so those are the best I could manage. A photo of the street from the end wasn't particularly interesting because the only things visible are new buildings and cars. This one shows how the buildings on either side of 227 have been demolished (and in one case rebuilt), but it wasn't IMO as eyecatching at small size, hence why I used the street sign. Also, yeah, I feel lucky to have found a landmark in NYC to write about before EG got there first. :) — Rhododendrites talk \\ 16:52, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
- I meant your image is already pretty good. I was just saying I could also take images, just to add to the Commons category. Epicgenius (talk) 16:56, 19 February 2021 (UTC)