Template:Did you know nominations/Sheep Meadow

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) 22:15, 20 September 2019 (UTC)

Sheep Meadow

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• ... that Sheep Meadow in New York City's Central Park was initially designed as a military parade ground, but was instead used as a sheep pasture? Source: NYC Parks: Sheep Meadow
  • ALT1:... that Sheep Meadow in New York City's Central Park has been used as a sheep pasture, for festivals and concerts, and as a helicopter landing site? Source: NYC Parks: Sheep Meadow; sources for helicopter landings in Sheep Meadow#Emergency and other uses
  • ALT2:... that there are a sheep meadow and a dairy adjacent to each other in New York City's Central Park? Source: Central Park map Note: ALT2 can only be used if The Dairy is also approved.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ninth German Inner Africa Research Expedition
• Comment: Also see Template:Did you know nominations/The Dairy, a nomination for a topic located right across the street.

Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 13:38, 11 September 2019 (UTC).

• The article is newly promoted to GA, neutral, and well referenced. Because of the huge number of sources I ran the article through Earwig's copyvio detector; it showed a close match to a source from the NY Daily News, meaning part of the "Use in media" section should be reworded (see the comparison here). I much prefer ALT1, which I think is more interesting to a broad audience, and the hook facts are cited. Also waiting on a QPQ (pinging Epicgenius). 97198 (talk) 11:08, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

• @97198: Thanks for the review. I have done a QPQ, and also added an ALT2 - see what you think about that. epicgenius (talk) 14:37, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

• @Epicgenius: Do you feel strongly about combining the two articles into one hook? In my opinion the individual hooks are certainly interesting enough to stand on their own, but if you would prefer to combine them that's up to you. I'll hold off on giving this one the tick until we've decided, so it doesn't get accidentally promoted in the meantime. 97198 (talk) 07:23, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

• @97198: I don't really have an opinion one way or the other. I just threw out ALT2 as a suggestion, since it's interesting that Central Park had these two features (to me at least). If you think these would be better as two separate hooks, that's also fine. epicgenius (talk) 14:09, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

• Approving the original hook and ALT1. If somebody else wants to review the Dairy nomination and likes the combined hook, I'm also happy with ALT2. 97198 (talk) 01:24, 17 September 2019 (UTC)