Template:Did you know nominations/History of Flagstaff, Arizona

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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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by BlueMoonset (talk) 14:56, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

History of Flagstaff, Arizona

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Flagstaff in Flagstaff
  • ... that this pole (pictured) named a city? Source: Text and image in article: commemorative flagstaff for which the city of Flagstaff was named [1], [2]
    • ALT1:... that Flagstaff, Arizona, prospered during the Great Depression, due to financial grants to improve Route 66 through the city? Southard, John Larsen (2013). "RICHES, RUIN, AND RECOVERY: The Impact of Route 66 on Flagstaff, 1926 to 1938". The Journal of Arizona History. 54 (2): 153–174. ISSN 0021-9053. JSTOR 24459232.
    • ALT2:... that at least six space objects have been named in relation to Flagstaff, Arizona, due to its long history serving as the discovery site of Pluto and Charon, the Apollo astronaut training site, and for Moon landing site mapping? Sources: a variety toward the end of the Route 66 and city growth section

Created by Kingsif (talk). Self-nominated at 17:49, 13 April 2020 (UTC).

  • I don't think this is DYK eligible. Per F8, " A 'new' article is no more than seven days old. This does not include articles split from older articles, although an article sufficiently expanded from a section of an older article can be a fivefold expansion." buidhe 22:29, 16 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Given the minimal size of the section in the article before I rewrote it in under a week, I'm sure it qualifies. Kingsif (talk) 03:53, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Before your edits which began 4 April, there was 5519 characters of readable prose in the "history" section. History of Flagstaff, Arizona currently has 24 kB of readable prose, slightly less than 5x epansion. (you need 27595 characters). Seven days before you nominated it, however, the history section in Flagstaff had already been significantly expanded [3]. Although personally, I think 5x expansion should be relaxed, technically it's not eligible for DYK. buidhe 04:17, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
  • No, don't worry - and I kind of like the 5x rule, it makes it a challenge when I do get an article over that threshold ;) Kingsif (talk) 15:45, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
  • @BlueMoonset: How do I un-nominate again? Kingsif (talk) 00:15, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Kingsif, you just say you want to withdraw the nomination, and we close it as withdrawn. Shall I do so? (I did double check using Duplication Detector, and since nearly half of the article came from Flagstaff as it was prior to April 6, it isn't eligible.) Note that should the article ever become a GA, it will be eligible for DYK at that time. Sorry it didn't work out this time! BlueMoonset (talk) 01:49, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Yeah, just close it - no worries :) Kingsif (talk) 04:08, 21 April 2020 (UTC)