Template:Did you know nominations/Central Park Zoo
- 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) 05:55, 7 September 2019 (UTC)
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Central Park Zoo
Central Park Zoo
- ... that the first example of whispering in non-human primates was observed at the Central Park Zoo (pictured)? Source: Popular Science
- ALT1:... that the Central Park Zoo (pictured) was created through spontaneous donations of animals during Central Park's construction? Source: NY Times 2014
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Charles Faroux
- Comment: None
Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 19:50, 19 August 2019 (UTC).
The article was promoted to GA status on time, and thus meets sourcing, length, and paraphrasing requirements. A QPQ hasa been done, and both hook facts are cited inline and verified. Of the two hooks, the first hook is probably the more interesting one. While this won't prevent me from approving this and this is otherwise good to go, I was wondering Epicgenius if a third hook, about the zoo hoax (whether it be through the "this is a hoax" notice, or the claim that the hoax was written to highlight the then-sorry state of the zoo) could be proposed here as well. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 11:08, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
- @Narutolovehinata5: Thanks for the review. How about these:
- ALT2 ... that in 1874, The New York Herald wrote a hoax story that claimed there had been a mass escape of animals from the Central Park Zoo (pictured)?
- ALT3 ... that in 1874, The New York Herald wrote a hoax story to draw attention to inadequate safety precautions at the Central Park Zoo (pictured)?
- Disclosure: there was a short discussion on Discord about this. epicgenius (talk) 01:57, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
- ALT3 sounds good to me, and meets requirements. ALT2 is probably not as interesting as ALT0 and ALT3. I am noting my preference for either ALT0 and ALT3, leaving the final decision to the promoter. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:41, 26 August 2019 (UTC)
