Template:Did you know nominations/Carbondale mine fire

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The result was: promoted by BobAmnertiopsis ∴_ChatMe! 21:21, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

Carbondale mine fire[edit]

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... that the Saturday Evening Post claimed that efforts to extinguish the Carbondale mine fire moved more earth than the construction of the Panama Canal?

ALT1:... that the Carbondale mine fire started in a city dump and burned for decades?
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Moved to mainspace by Jakec (talk). Self nominated at 15:43, 25 June 2014 (UTC).

Length checks, date checks, hook can't be verified. Plagiarism not found. The main hook is interesting but is there a way a quote can be provided in the ref to verify the hook? Poss alternate hooks:...that the Carbondale mine fire caused millions of dollars of property damage and burned from 1946 until 1970s? or ...that experts considered extinguishing the Carbodndale mine fire, which burned from 1946 until the 1970's, by smothering it with dry ice? 842U (talk) 16:36, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

@842U: The original hook comes from page 107 of The West Side Carbondale Pennsylvania Mine Fire:

As described in The Saturday Evening Post in 1963, "The work scene is awesome. Men with giant shovels, bulldozers, and trucks are now swarming over the site. Before they are through, they will dig out an area almost a mile long and a half-mile wide down to bedrock--on average a hundred feet or more...(moving) more earth than the builders of the Panama Canal."

--Jakob(talk) 17:24, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Ok, great, I incorporated that quote into its own citation. You're good to go.842U (talk) 17:38, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Good to go. 842U (talk) 17:39, 25 June 2014 (UTC)

Which hook would you guys prefer? I like alt1 myself. EEng (talk) 21:30, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

@EEng: I'm leaning to the original, but if you have a strong preference for alt1, I'll gladly go with that too. --Jakob (talk) 22:05, 26 June 2014 (UTC)