Talk:Margate Jetty

A fact from Margate Jetty appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a drifting shipwreck stranded several dozen people on Margate Jetty in 1877?

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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 08:04, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Margate lifeboat station after 1978 storm surge

... that after a 1978 storm surge destroyed part of Margate Jetty and isolated the town's lifeboat station (pictured) a crew was landed by helicopter to salvage the boat? "The jetty closed in 1976 on safety grounds but the structure survived until 11–12 January 1978, when it was hit by another storm. This surge destroyed much of the pier with planks washing up on to Margate beach. It also isolated the lifeboat station. Following the storm the RAF air sea rescue Wessex helicopter from Manston, landed some of the lifeboat crew onto the station and after checking for damage to the lifeboat slipway, the boat was launched and taken to Ramsgate." from: Bailes, Kathy (13 January 2018). "The destruction of Margate jetty in the great storm of January 1978". The Isle Of Thanet News. Retrieved 15 March 2021.

Margate Jetty, circa 1897

ALT1:... that in 1877 up to fifty people were trapped on Margate Jetty (pictured) overnight after it was cut through by a drifting shipwreck? "On 1 January 1877 it was sliced through by a storm-driven wreck that marooned 40 to 50 people. They were not rescued until the next day." from: Bailes, Kathy (13 January 2018). "The destruction of Margate jetty in the great storm of January 1978". The Isle Of Thanet News. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John-Michael Caprio

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 10:03, 17 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

1978 image proposed for ALT0 and 1897 image for ALT1 - Dumelow (talk) 10:05, 17 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Article is new enough (moved to mainspace March 17). Long enough. Neutral. Cites sources as needed Nit: (not a DYK criteria), you could combine the two Fawkes, Barker, Morris references into one, and use {{rp}} to note the page numbers in-line.
Earwig finds a few minor cases of copied phrases from The Isle Of Thanet News (report here). For example, "closed in 1976 on safety grounds" could be rephrased as "In 1976, safety issues forced its closure", See the earwig report for more examples.
ALT0 is too wordy. I like ALT1 better (and the image is better too). But, this would be even more hooky:

ALT2: ... that a drifting shipwreck stranded several dozen people on Margate Jetty in 1877.

QPQ done.
Image is public domain. It's a little busy for 100x100, but might be OK. I'll leave that call to people with more experience on images.
Just need to clean up the close paraphrasing issues from earwig.

Hi RoySmith, thanks for the review. I've reworded a couple of bits picked up on the paraphrasing checker - Dumelow (talk) 18:56, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Are you OK with my proposed ALT2? -- RoySmith (talk) 19:02, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by me - Dumelow (talk) 20:20, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

review passed, using ALT2, and potentially the image from ALT1. Nice job, thanks for the submission. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:37, 26 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]