Template:Did you know nominations/Norfolk and Western 611
- 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: rejected by Bruxton (talk) 23:47, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
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Norfolk and Western 611
- ... that Norfolk and Western 611 represents the ingenuity and pinnacle of steam locomotive technology? Source: https://fireup611.org/about-611/
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Created by 611fan2001 (talk). Self-nominated at 18:00, 29 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Norfolk and Western 611; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page. General eligibility:
- New enough:
- No; it was nominated two months too late. - Long enough:
Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- Neutral:
- Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Hook eligibility:
- Cited:
- Interesting:
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Overall: 
@611fan2001: First, let me say that you did a great job improving this to Good Article status. As an avid railfan myself, I can appreciate how hard it is to find sources for individual locomotives, let alone improving articles about individual locomotives to GA status. That said, unfortunately, you nominated this article far too late for it to be eligible for a DYK appearance. It was improved to GA status on March 12, over two months ago, and should have been nominated shortly afterward (before March 19 at the latest). Furthermore, even if this were eligible, I'm sure a more specific hook could have been proposed from the details in the article. For future nominations, please note that wording like "the ingenuity and pinnacle of steam locomotive technology" is not likely to be approved, since it's extremely vague and sounds almost like marketing-speak. Epicgenius (talk) 18:48, 29 May 2023 (UTC)