Template:Did you know nominations/Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station
- 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) 06:24, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
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Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station
- ... that formerly, subway riders trying to exit the Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station in the evening were trapped behind a locked gate? Source: NY Times
- ALT1:... that the Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station in New York City contains posters showing objects at nearby museums such as the Museum of Modern Art? Source: Interiors
Improved to Good Article status by Kew Gardens 613 (talk). Nominated by Epicgenius (talk) at 21:10, 13 September 2019 (UTC).
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- SubwayNut, a self-published source, is used quite heavily. - Neutral:
- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Hook eligibility:
- Cited: - ALT1 needs to have a citation immediately after the end of the sentence ("...each platform.") for DYK compliance. The hook tweaked so that it is "showing objects at" or however the book source is wording it; as it stands, the article and hook do not match.
- Interesting:
QPQ: 
- Not done
Overall: 
Going to AGF on the sourcing in ALT1, which I find to be equally interesting to ALT0. Just needs a QPQ and those changes I mentioned. The wording of ALT0 needs a bit of work too, since it flows awkwardly. Perhaps "... that some locked exit gates at Fifth Avenue/53rd Street station trapped passengers attempting to exit in the evenings?" SounderBruce 04:45, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
- @SounderBruce: Thanks for the review. Subway Nut is really used only as a photo citation. I have trimmed its use considerably, nonetheless. I also have now done a QPQ. epicgenius (talk) 14:07, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
The hook citation issue has been fixed, and I'm still 50-50 on allowing the SubwayNut citations to remain in place, but I won't give you a hard time over it. Just make sure to scrub them from future GAs, because it is really borderline. SounderBruce 06:29, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
- @SounderBruce: While I agree that using citations from SubwayNut are not preferrable, for most stations, there is no other option. What other acceptable citations would there be? Other than getting access to station blueprints or the link, I can't see any.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 10:22, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
- @SounderBruce: Thanks for the review. Subway Nut is really used only as a photo citation. I have trimmed its use considerably, nonetheless. I also have now done a QPQ. epicgenius (talk) 14:07, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
