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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 feminist (talk) 10:47, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

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Queens Botanical Garden

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  • ... that Queens Botanical Garden in New York City was built on top of landfill atop a creek? Source: NY Times 2001. "Most of its 39 acres consist of landfill dumped on a creek, which pocks the ground with soggy sinkholes."

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk) and Tdorante10 (talk). Nominated by Epicgenius (talk) at 03:40, 6 February 2019 (UTC).

  • Expanded eightfold, within policy, QPQ pending. Great article, worthy of having a pic featured on the DYK. The landfill angle is good; ALT0 feels a little clunky with its chain prepositions. ALT1 reads better, but I'd switch it to "on top of a landfill." I also wonder if it should read "Did you know that the Queens Botanical Garden was built..." It's tricky with New York City's Five Burroughs: we say "The Bronx" with a "the" while "Queens" doesn't get a "the." Yet we also say "The Bronx Zoo" and "The Queens Museum." Thoughts? Morganfitzp (talk) 03:55, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
  • Morganfitzp, Thanks for the response. We say "the Queens Museum" and "the Bronx Zoo" because "the" is the definite article and we are referring to the museum, and the zoo. There's a reason why we say "The Bronx" instead of just "Bronx", but it has to do with rivers. I'm fine with saying "... that the Queens Botanical Garden in New York City is located atop landfill?" As for the QPQ, I will do it soon. epicgenius (talk) 04:14, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
  • epicgenius, I'm not involved here except as someone making friendly reminders. This is Morganfitzp's review, and they haven't been editing with much frequency so far this month; they may also be pretty busy in real life. With luck, they'll be back here within the next week or so. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:48, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
  • Pardon the delay, and thank for the nudge. Both ALT0 and ALT1 look fine. Morganfitzp (talk) 15:20, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
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