Template:Did you know nominations/Hotel Arctic (Murmansk)

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. 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 Orlady (talk) 04:28, 2 November 2011 (UTC)

Hotel Arctic (Murmansk)

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... that the Hotel Arctic in Murmansk, Russia, is the tallest building above the Arctic Circle?

Reviewed: Grant Enfinger
Comment: This assertion is supported by a single ref, and it's not the best ref. But it's acceptable in my opinion (meets our WP:RS criteria, all things considered), and see Talk:Hotel Arctic (Murmansk) for my detailed exposition on this.

Created/expanded by Herostratus (talk). Self nom at 17:44, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

I do not see the problem of putting sources into the article that are more comprehensive. I outlined details on Talk:Hotel Arctic (Murmansk). The "Renovations" section has an unsourced paragraph that would profit from some wikilinking. The "newness" might be an issue, as the article is translated from ru.wikipedia. I just browsed the additional DYK rules again and found no hint how to handle translated articles---opinions? Otherwise, length and date are okay. --Pgallert (talk) 07:55, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Right, thanks. I don't know how I missed those, I guess I was mainly using refs in the Russian source article. So we now have good sources showing its the tallest building north of the Circle, thanks for your help. I don't know how many rooms the friggin' thing has. This may be confused by before/after (renovation) issues, but most sources do say 635 -- but I have one source saying 1,030. Since I don't have complete confidence in either number, I just removed the entire sentence. I redacted much of the middle paragraph of the renovation section and sourced the architect's name, so I think this addresses all your issues. As to the translation issue, I'd say sure, translations are eligible. I've done a couple others that got DYKs, it's new to the English Wikipedia, and it's a comparable amount of work to making a new article. This should probably be clarified in the DYK eligibility rules though. Herostratus (talk) 09:38, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

(I do read Russian) All concerns addressed. I have dropped another notice about the room numbers at Talk:Hotel Arctic (Murmansk), but this is independent of the DYK discussion; article is long enough also after the removal of the statement. --Pgallert (talk) 12:27, 31 October 2011 (UTC)