Template:Did you know nominations/Madison station (CTA)

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The result was: promoted by RoySmith (talk) 21:22, 23 October 2022 (UTC)

Madison station (CTA)

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... that the former station house of Madison station was demolished despite getting the second-highest rating in the Chicago Historic Resources Survey to scout possible Chicago landmarks? Source: https://www.chicago-l.org/stations/madison-paulina.html
- ALT1: ... that decades after its closure, the station house of the Chicago "L"'s Madison station would house a hot dog stand? Source: https://www.chicago-l.org/stations/madison-paulina.html
- ALT2: ... that the Chicago "L"'s Madison station, closed in 1951, has been floated for revival several times? Source: https://www.chicago-l.org/stations/madison-paulina.html
- Reviewed: Melbourne Law School
- Comment: The first edit (already DYK-eligible) was independent of other articles (which would otherwise affect eligibility), but subsequent edits have added information from Lake Street Transfer station that I have duly marked in the summary. Also, while I don't really care who reviews my DYKs, but I think the architectural and urban focus makes this up @Epicgenius:'s alley. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 23:55, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Created by John M Wolfson (talk). Self-nominated at 23:55, 9 October 2022 (UTC).

No worries @John M Wolfson. I can look at this nomination tomorrow. Epicgenius (talk) 23:31, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

I see that Epic's already gonna take a look at this, but FWIW I think ALT1 (the hot dog stand hook) is probably the hookiest out of the three as the other two seems more niche and more targeted towards infrastructure buffs. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 02:06, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

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:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice work. I agree with NLH5 above that ALT1 is the best, but all three are acceptable to me. Epicgenius (talk) 13:51, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Hey, Epicgenius, there may be some consensus for ALT1 forming, but might I add the following hook to tweak ALT0:

ALT4: ... that the former station house of Madison station was demolished despite recognition of its historic signifcance?

I'd slightly prefer it over ALT1, unless there's consenus that hot dogs rule the day. Thanks! – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 20:27, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

No problem. ALT4 (I think we skipped ALT3 there) also works for me - it's definitely better than ALT0, which says basically the same thing but is more verbose. Epicgenius (talk) 21:56, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Ah yes, the off-by-one error! :P – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 22:46, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

I still have a preference for ALT1 but ALT4 is also okay. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 08:34, 12 October 2022 (UTC)