Template:Did you know nominations/Thousand Islands Parkway
- 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:54, 8 April 2021 (UTC)
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Thousand Islands Parkway
Thousand Islands Parkway under construction in 1944
- ... that the Thousand Islands Parkway (pictured under construction in 1944) was the final two-lane section of Highway 401, the busiest highway in North America?
- ALT1:... that the Thousand Islands Parkway (pictured under construction in 1944) was the final two-lane section of Highway 401?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/WRTV (New Jersey)
- Comment: The "busiest highway in North America" is extensively sourced and mentioned only in the Highway 401 article, but is an additional bit of information to "the final two-lane section of Highway 401", which is in the target article. I feel this really adds to the hook, but I'm assuming I'll get an appeal to tradition and any thought of doing that will be killed off (I don't feel adding the "busiest highway in North America" fits in to the Thousand Island Parkway article).
Also, there is another image that may possibly be less confusing, since the one I've selected shows four lanes being built.
Improved to Good Article status by Floydian (talk). Self-nominated at 14:12, 22 March 2021 (UTC).
I assume good faith on the references that I can't access. The article was promoted to GA on time. A QPQ has been completed. I am approving ALT1 because I don't feel that the rule about all of the information needing to be in the nominated article needs to be changed. The image is fine. SL93 (talk) 22:07, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
- @Floydian: Coming to promote this, I can't really see the hook facts in the article. How about ALT2? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:31, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
- ALT2 ... that the opening of the Thousand Islands Bridge in 1938 was attended by over 50,000 people including Prime Minister Mackenzie King and President Franklin D. Roosevelt?
