Template:Did you know nominations/Maurzyce Bridge

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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 23:48, 16 November 2013 (UTC)

Maurzyce Bridge

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... that the Maurzyce Bridge, built in 1928 near Łowicz in Poland, was the first welded road bridge in the world?

Created by Halibutt (talk). Self nominated at 05:31, 7 November 2013 (UTC).

New enough and long enough.The hook makes a different claim than the article: the hook claims that this is the first welded bridge, while the article says the first road bridge, second bridge overall. The latter claim I was able to verify in Chen & Duan. The article says that the first bridge was built by the Turtle Creek Industrial Railroad in 1927/28, but that's a short-line railroad which was established in 1982. In Blondeau this is simply a railway bridge over Turtle Creek, so probably by the Pennsylvania Railroad. Blondeau should probably be cited as a source for that fact, as it's only cited to Chen & Duan who don't identify the bridge. Mackensen (talk) 16:41, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Good catch, on both occasions. Must have simply swapped ref tags when writing. As to Turtle Creek bridge, I simply assumed it had to do with Turtle Creek Railroad, corrected it now. Thanks. //Halibu tt 18:51, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks, I've updated the hook as well. Looks good to me. Mackensen (talk) 19:02, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

The article has a "citation needed" template, which seems to cover the 1968 listing and the "prized" characterization, which incidentally also affects the caption to the infobox photo. Until this is fixed, which would require a new inline source ref (1968 had to come from somewhere), or by removing the unsupported material, the article can't be promoted. BlueMoonset (talk) 07:36, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

Done There's always something... I added a pretty decent source for both the 2009 refurbishment and the 1968 inscription on the List of Historical Monuments. I'm not sure I can find a source for this historical monument being "prized", as this is pretty much a case of "the sky is blue, the grass is green": the bridge is the first in the world of its' type, and as such it's pretty obvious it's a unique monument, I can't think of anyone having to say that explicitly. I expanded the section on the bridge as a historical monument to give you the idea though, the "Grade Zero" thingie should give you a clue. Hope that solves the problems. //Halibu tt 03:01, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

I apologize for it taking so long for me to get back to this. The new sources are AGF (I tried Google translate, but it doesn't do a good job with Polish, though the result does include the zero thingie), and the rest of the review is per Mackensen above. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:53, 16 November 2013 (UTC)