Template:Did you know nominations/Longacres
- 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 SL93 (talk) 23:03, 7 March 2022 (UTC)
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Longacres
- ... that the site of Longacres has been home to a dairy farm, a horse racetrack, headquarters of a Boeing division, and a potential new facility for Seattle Sounders FC? Source: The Seattle Times and HistoryLink
- ALT1: ... that Seattle Sounders FC plans to open a new headquarters and training facility on the site of a former horse racetrack? Source: Same as above
- ALT2: ... that Boeing Commercial Airplanes' former headquarters at Longacres is planned to be repurposed by Seattle Sounders FC as a headquarters and training facility? Source: Same as above
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- Comment: I had this article in my userspace ready for months now, but I wanted to wait until the rumor about the Sounders moving to Longacres was confirmed. This is my first DYK nomination, so please be patient with me; I tried to be as thorough as I could with my citations.
5x expanded by SmartAn01 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:12, 16 February 2022 (UTC).
| General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- y almost - see note about quote in comments - Neutral:
- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
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Overall: 
Oh. My. If this is your first DYK, I can't wait to see what you do when you get some experience, this is great! Very thorough, I can see lots of work put in. I have no idea why User:SounderBruce marked it Start-class, this is at least a B, and I wouldn't be surprised if you nominated it for WP:GA.
Why do you put "the longest continuously running track on the West Coast" in quotes in the lead and body? Is there some doubt as to whether that is correct? If there is, then you want to cite the quote directly, even in the lead, and probably even explain why you think there is some doubt - but I think you might want to just remove the quote marks. I prefer the first hook. GRuban (talk) 17:08, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
- @GRuban: I included the quotation marks as a precautionary measure since I could only find the claim in The Seattle Times initially. I just redid the search and saw that it was additionally mentioned in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and The (Tacoma) News Tribune, so I'm fine removing the quotation marks now. SmartAn01 (talk) 18:02, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
