Template:Did you know nominations/Peabody Terrace

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The result was: promoted by Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 14:56, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Peabody Terrace[edit]

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... that in 1963 the Harvard Crimson published a photo of the school's "hideous" new housing complex for married students (pictured) over the caption, "University Moves to Thwart Early Marriages"?

Reviewed: Ashelman Run

Created by EEng (talk). Self nominated at 01:17, 26 December 2014 (UTC).

Article is new, started Dec. 26.

Long enough.

No problems with appropriate sourcing, neutrality, or paraphrasing/copyright.

Image file license checks out OK.

Hook: I very much like the witty tone; it's very catchy. However, I wonder if it could be made shorter. Offhand, maybe something like: ALT1 ... that in 1963 the Harvard Crimson criticized the new housing complex for married students (pictured) as "University Moves to Thwart Early Marriages"? --Tryptofish (talk) 22:05, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

So, Typofish, we meet again! The only problem with the suggested change is, well, read it carefully. You could say, "X criticized Y as a 'University Move to Thwart Early Marriages' " but then that's not the actual quote. We could try

ALT2 ... that in 1963 the Harvard Crimson captioned a photo of the school's "hideous" new housing complex for married students (pictured), "University Moves to Thwart Early Marriages"?

but as I write I realize I considered it before, the problem being that by the end of the sentence it's easy to forget the the quote is the caption. But I leave the choice to others. ("hideous" is needed because otherwise the reader doesn't understand what the basis is for the potential, um, thwartation I just made that word thwartation up.) EEng (talk) 22:19, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Let's thwart misspelling my user name as Typo. Understood, so how about:

ALT3 ... that "University Moves to Thwart Early Marriages" was the 1963 Harvard Crimson caption beneath a photo of the school's "hideous" new housing complex for married students (pictured)?

--Tryptofish (talk) 22:30, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

Beautiful. Please re-tick. EEng (talk) 23:14, 26 December 2014 (UTC) [slight change to hook]

I can't re-tick this. One statement relies on some Wiki-alike web source that has no references or sort. Also, that source is called "WikiArquitectura". It is edited by email-confirmed users and administrators. I've tagged it as "unreliable source". --George Ho (talk) 05:53, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

I've substituted a more conventional source. EEng (talk) 07:29, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

I've checked the new source, and it's a reliable book. The quote now conforms exactly to that source. --Tryptofish (talk) 15:45, 27 December 2014 (UTC)