Template:Did you know nominations/Seattle Center Monorail
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 15:08, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
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Seattle Center Monorail
Seattle Monorail
... that the Seattle Center Monorail (pictured) still uses its original trains, which began operating 58 years ago today? Source: Seattle Monorail, The Seattle TimesALT1: ... that the doors of the Seattle Center Monorail (pictured) were reconstructed by the local opera after a train collision? Source: The Seattle TimesALT2: ... that the Seattle Center Monorail (pictured) makes an operating profit with its fares? Source: Seattle City Council
- Reviewed: Kissena Creek
- Comment: Hold for March 24, which is the 58th anniversary of the first public rides.
5x expanded by SounderBruce (talk). Self-nominated at 05:08, 4 March 2020 (UTC).
- I've started to review this. Expansion is over five times. A couple of dabs need sorting ("Floating bridge" and "subway"). I'll carry on tomorrow. Schwede66 09:59, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
Review is finished for now. Phew, that is one long article! Good work. Image is fine. Earwig's Copyvio Detector has been down for the last few days and I'm unwilling to run 197 references through the alternative tool. All three hooks check out and I prefer the original hook as the most interesting. How would you like my ALT3 below, which is a rearrangement of the original hook? ALT2 is somewhat clumsy as fares are only a part of an operating profit (profit is when revenue exceeds cost, hence you either mention both sides of the equation or none). So what now needs doing is to resolve the dabs and provide a QPQ. Schwede66 20:06, 6 March 2020 (UTC)- ALT3: ... that the Seattle Center Monorail (pictured) began operating 58 years ago today and still uses its original trains?
- @Schwede66: I do like the sound of the ALT3, but I did tweak it a bit. Also added a new ALT1 and struck the others. QPQ added and dabs resolved. SounderBruce 07:12, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
@SounderBruce: Ahem. Would you mind *not* changing hooks fundamentally after they have been approved? I've struck ALT1 as unreviewed; feel free to repost it as ALT4 if you'd like to have it checked. Earwig is working again and that detected one infraction (i.e. the sentence "On July 25, 1971, a brake failure on the red train resulted in it striking the girder at the end of the track in the Seattle Center terminal"). The source is Creative Commons, i.e. this can be copied verbatim, but the ref has to state that it's a CC source and it does not do that. If you need a hand with fixing that, please let me know and I can show you how it's done. Schwede66 20:39, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
- procedural ALT4: ... that the doors of the Seattle Center Monorail (pictured) were reconstructed by the local opera after a train collision? Source: The Seattle Times
ALT3 and ALT4 are both good to go. I find ALT3 more interesting; this would only make sense if the hook ran on the anniversary day (March 24). Schwede66 18:35, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
- Hi, I came by to promote ALT3, but I don't see an inline cite for the hook fact about using the same trains. Yoninah (talk) 01:53, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
- @Yoninah: The hook is in the second sentence of the second paragraph in the "Rolling stock and guideway" subsection, supported by Citations 32 and 37. Citation 32 mentions the year and Citation 37 (an offline newspaper source) mentions that they are the original trains. SounderBruce 03:12, 18 March 2020 (UTC)