Talk:Park Avenue Viaduct

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Review: July 15, 2020. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Park Avenue Viaduct appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 August 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Park Avenue Viaduct (pictured), designed to take traffic around New York City's Grand Central Terminal, caused gridlock soon after opening?

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GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: ArnabSaha (talk · contribs) 10:35, 14 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

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Pass or Fail: (2nd opinion by Lee Vilenski)

I will go for a 2nd opinion to avoid any mistakes, because I am still learning.

Comments WP:CITEKILL in Expansion section. No more issues in the article. Congrats.

Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 01:51, 15 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Park Avenue Viaduct facing Grand Central Terminal

... that the Park Avenue Viaduct (pictured), designed to take traffic around New York City's Grand Central Terminal, caused gridlock soon after opening? Source: NY Times 1928
- ALT1:... that New York City's congested Park Avenue Viaduct (pictured) was expanded as part of an agreement with the New York Central Railroad, which constructed its headquarters above the viaduct? Source: NY Times 1928
- ALT2:... that the Park Avenue Viaduct (pictured) turned Park Avenue "from an inconvenient local street to the most modern highway in New York"? Source: NY Times 1989

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Indian locomotive class WDG-4G
Comment: I may add more hooks later

Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 14:39, 15 July 2020 (UTC).[reply]

:REVIEW COMPLETED - The following review was completed by Thats Just Great

QPQ for Indian locomotive class WDG-4G

Article promoted to Good Article status on July 15, 2020

NPOV

Image in the Public Domain - Permission: CC-BY-SA-4.0

Hook is interesting, short enough and sourced with Refs [44] and [56]

AGF on offline sourcing with Ref 56

Hook ref [56] is behind paywall taken AGF. [44]sourced to Pg6 :"strangling the essential flow of this midtown commerical hub"

Earwig @ Toolserver Copyvio Detector found no copyvio

GTG -- Thats Just Great (talk) 19:38, 19 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]