Talk:Ponte Madonna della Stella

A fact from Ponte Madonna della Stella appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 December 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the bridge from which James Bond leapt in No Time to Die is actually an aqueduct?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 11:24, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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the higher south parapet houses the water channel

... that the bridge (pictured) from which Bond leapt in No Time to Die is actually an aqueduct? Source: https://www.comune.gravina.ba.it/dalla-regione-un-milione-e-mezzo-per-il-ponte-acquedotto-di-gravina/
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Drei Motetten, Op. 39 (Mendelssohn)

Created by Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk). Self-nominated at 17:02, 13 December 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Comment: I am about 2/3 of the way through a review; I will return to it after a real-life interruption is addressed. Mind matrix 23:18, 13 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Maculosae tegmine lyncis: Article is about 4500 bytes and was created and nominated on the same day. I will assume good faith for the reference I cannot access (No Time to Die: the making of the film by Mark Salisbury). Please consider adding page numbers to you citations in the future; hunting through a long document for the source info can be cumbersome. There are a few instances in which the wrong source was cited; I have fixed one, but cannot find the others. It occurs at the two sentences starting at "A series of twenty-five arches..." in the history section. I'm not sure what is meant by "where it was borrowed to connect Matera with its necropolis"; how was an aqueduct "borrowed".? Hook is sufficiently short, and I can verify all of it except the bit about Bond leaping from it, which is sourced to the offline ref; I'll assume good faith for this. Image is suitable at this scale and properly licenced. QPQ completed. Mind matrix 01:16, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the corrections - and the introduction to template:rp; I have fixed the truncated FAI link; re the "borrowed", the bridge/aqueduct itself is in Gravina, but in the film it is used in a sequence that is set in Matera (a couple of dozen km away); I have replaced "borrowed" with "cinematographically transplanted" (whether via painted backdrops, images on led screens, on in post-production, I don't know; the book cited discusses the scenes set in Matera, then how he "staggers" out of the graveyard in Matera and "across a gorge-spanning bridge - in reality, the incredible Ponte Viadotto-Acquedotto Madonna della Stella in neighbouring [sensu lato..] Gravina, since Matera doesn't have one"), hopefully this is clearer; thank you once again, Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 11:32, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go. I am assuming good faith for the offline source, which also covers part of the hook, per above. Mind matrix 15:32, 14 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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