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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 Bruxton talk 16:02, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that a neighborhood in Virginia lost its public park because its city government did not build a fence? Source: "Although the Improvement Company had given its 'Woodland Park' on a hill in the southeast to the municipal government in the early 1880s, the firm put that tract on the market in the summer of 1890 as well when the city failed to fence the property as it had agreed to do." Dotson, Rand (2007). "Roanoke, Virginia, 1882-1912: Magic City of the New South". The University of Tennessee Press / Knoxville. For online sources see here, here, and here.
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    • Comment: Fourth DYK nom

Created by DrOrinScrivello (talk). Self-nominated at 23:09, 20 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Belmont Historic District (Roanoke, Virginia); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: None required.

Overall: Nice work on this article. I modified the hook slightly per MOS:N'T (I often make the same mistake myself, so don't worry). Everything is good to go. Epicgenius (talk) 17:22, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note to admin - Earwig was not working for me so please check later. Bruxton (talk) 16:22, 25 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Update, I got Earwig working and it is 24% alerting only to titles. Bruxton (talk) 03:54, 26 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]