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The following discussion 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 Allen3 talk 21:44, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

Joseph Henry Memorial

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Front facade of building, with statue

Created by Daniel Case (talk). Self nominated at 01:48, 8 June 2013 (UTC).

  • Hook length, neutrality fine, copyvioless. Article the same. Photo is cleared. What I have problem with - and I don't want to sound too picky - is the references for the two facts that this hook is put together. We have Joseph Henry discovering inductance at Albany Academy, which is supported by the siarchives.si.edu site just fine. The second thing is that Joseph Henry Memorial actually in the same Albany Academy Park and that he did his researches within that building. I don't find GoogleMaps/ACME a valid reference for that. It just shows a building. None of the current sources identifies the building. Are there any other reference that connects the two facts (and verifies the latter)? Am I missing something? Lajbi Holla @ meCP 15:32, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
Well, I didn't intend for the ACME Mapper reference (and, if we don't consider Google Maps a reliable source, then why do we have a template for links to it?) to support the building being the same one, rather to support the descriptions of the surroundings. If you read the NRHP nom, you'll see that the very first page describes the building as being in Academy Park; the last page has a poorly-copied USGS map that nevertheless puts the building at that locartion. Ditto with the guidebook Albany Architecture. Both those sources mention Henry's discovery. Daniel Case (talk) 17:44, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
Addendum: There are also coordinates on page 4 of the NRHP nom that, while not exact, are very close to the ones used in the article. Daniel Case (talk) 17:46, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
Thank you for your fast response. These sources will do just fine. But can I ask you to spread these refs within the article to those relevant sentences, which support the hook? Currently they ARE in the article but don't support directly the hook statement. Or better it'll be to include a new entry dedicated to back up the whole hook and have these refs attached to it. In case of the book it would be best to have the corresponding page numbers included in the ref as well. Lajbi Holla @ meCP 13:08, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
BTW, I almost forgot. Can you please include the QPQ in this DYK nomination? I don't see you having a surplus from your previous nominations. Lajbi Holla @ meCP 13:15, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
I'm sorry, that was Theodore Morde. Daniel Case (talk) 03:18, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
Good to go. Nice looking article. Lajbi Holla @ meCP 11:20, 10 June 2013 (UTC)