Template:Did you know nominations/West Branch Lackawanna River
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:37, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
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West Branch Lackawanna River
[edit]- ... that the West Branch Lackawanna River was referred to as Ball Creek on a 1944 USGS map, but in 1968, a USGS employee was unable to verify the usage of that variant name among locals?
Moved to mainspace by Jakec (talk). Self-nominated at 00:38, 21 June 2015 (UTC).
This nomination is misfiled – it was moved to mainspace on June 14, not June 21, and should be filed under that date. But it's still within the seven days, so it's still eligible. Article is definitely long enough. Hook interesting enough, sourcing verified. Hook length at 186 characters is okay, but shouldn't USGS be spelled out as United States Geological Survey on first reference? While many U.S. readers will know what USGS is, most foreign ones won't. That would push the hook length over 2000 unless some rewording is done. Neutrality and sourcing okay and didn't detect any copyvios. QPQ was done. Couple of other points. There should be a redirect of Ball Creek to this article, since that phrase is bolded in the lead. The footnote title beginning "HARVEYS CREEK" should be switched to mixed case. Wasted Time R (talk) 12:36, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
- @Wasted Time R: I've linked "USGS" to the United States Geological Survey. However, I think the hook would be over 200 characters if I spelled it out in full, which is why I abbreviated it. I've also made a redirect from Ball Creek to West Branch Lackawanna River. --Jakob (talk) aka Jakec 12:43, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
Okay, good to go. I do like the hook – I never realized that name usage gets verified like that. On a separate matter one thing you could do is disambiguate a red link in List of watercourses in Western Australia, B that now points to the wrong Ball Creek. Wasted Time R (talk) 13:33, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
