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Review: August 17, 2020. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Daily News Building appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 June 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during a 1977 blackout, crews filming Superman: The Movie at the Daily News Building lent their Klieg lights to Daily News editors so that the next day's issue could be published?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Daily News Building.

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LAME[edit]

This "article" is dreadful. There's next to no information about the building itself. Erm, hello... architect? Maybe? That would be a start. There's more about Superman than anything real.

100% Wikiality. With Wikipedia's gamed page ranking you are stealing traffic from dozens of decent high quality sites on this building. No wonder Wikipedia gets the bad name it fully deserves. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.42.129.149 (talk) 19:04, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

And who cares what Ayn Rand thought about it? She knew nothing about architecture. This buildingcertainly deserves AN entry. It deserves better than this one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.97.194.138 (talk) 08:36, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Missing Ayn Rand citation[edit]

It's on page 735 of the centennial edition of the fountainhead, I'd put it in myself but don't know how nor care to learn —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.137.12.4 (talk) 01:16, 28 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Thank you for alerting us. Jim.henderson (talk) 23:15, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, now, is it in the Fountainhead, or is it in notes about the writing of the Fountainhead, made by the author, and included by a posthumous editor in a later edition of the book? Judging from the reference, it's NOT in the book itself, it's just in her notes, which are not part of the work.Gms3591 (talk) 06:51, 11 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

pdflink templates[edit]

I recommend editors not to use pdflink templates in citations (cite book, etc.), because it breaks code within citation tags. -Mardus (talk) 16:46, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Yoninah (talk) 22:51, 16 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Daily News Building

... that the Daily News Building's (pictured) rotunda was inspired by the tomb of Napoleon? Source: NY Daily News 1967
- ALT1:... that the site of the Daily News Building (pictured) was chosen because it was on the same street as Times Square, where the Daily News's rival The New York Times was also situated? Source: Kilham, W.H. (1973). Raymond Hood, Architect: Form Through Function in the American Skyscraper. Architectural Book Publishing Company. p. 19
- ALT2:... that during a 1977 blackout, crews filming Superman: The Movie at the Daily News Building lent their Klieg lights to Daily News editors so the next day's issue could be published? Source: NY Times 2007

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Crown House, St Leonards-on-Sea

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 15:02, 31 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: - Not done yet.
Overall: I find ALT2 to be the most interesting, followed by ALT1. ALT0 doesn't really work when paired with the picture. Waiting on the QPQ. Sounder Bruce 16:35, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@SounderBruce: Thanks for the review. I have done a QPQ. epicgenius (talk) 13:55, 3 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go, then. Sounder Bruce 05:22, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]