Template:Did you know nominations/Chillisquaque Creek
- 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 ~ RobTalk 02:11, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
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Chillisquaque Creek
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Chillisquaque Creek from Interstate 80
... that possible etymologies of Chillisquaque Creek's (pictured) name include "place of the snowbirds", "flight of the wild goose", "frozen duck", and "man made perfect"?
5x expanded by Jakec (talk). Self-nominated at 13:27, 14 July 2015 (UTC).
- Detailed article on good sources, offline sources accepted AGF. Go for GA after this ;) - I would stop the hook after three names and try to do without the clumsy "'s" followed by pictured (thinking that it's clear that we don't mean "of creek":
- ALT1: ... that possible etymologies of Chillisquaque Creek (pictured) include "place of the snowbirds", "flight of the wild goose" and "frozen duck"?
- or simpler
- ALT2: ... that the name of Chillisquaque Creek (pictured) may mean "place of the snowbirds", "flight of the wild goose" and "frozen duck"?
let's see what a prep builder thinks, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:33, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Thanks for the review, and I will definitely go for GA once the 30 other creeks in my backlog get promoted ;) But I would like to keep the "man made perfect" part; it contrasts nicely with the birdy etymologies. So ALT3: : ... that the name of Chillisquaque Creek (pictured) may mean "place of the snowbirds", "frozen duck", or "man made perfect"? But we can let the prep builder decide. --Jakob (talk) aka Jakec 11:24, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
- perfect --Gerda Arendt (talk) 11:48, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
- @Gerda Arendt: Thanks for the review, and I will definitely go for GA once the 30 other creeks in my backlog get promoted ;) But I would like to keep the "man made perfect" part; it contrasts nicely with the birdy etymologies. So ALT3: : ... that the name of Chillisquaque Creek (pictured) may mean "place of the snowbirds", "frozen duck", or "man made perfect"? But we can let the prep builder decide. --Jakob (talk) aka Jakec 11:24, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
