Template:Did you know nominations/Iron railing
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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 13:46, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
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Iron railing[edit]
- ... that there are phantom railings (mysteriously pictured) in Malet Street?
- Reviewed: Sheila Bird
- Comment: Started at the Bloomsbury Group editathon.
- Suggestion: As the hook is a bit spooky, this might go in the holding area for Halloween.
Created by Andrew Davidson (talk), Philafrenzy (talk). Nominated by Andrew Davidson (talk) at 10:22, 25 October 2013 (UTC).
New enough, long enough, adequately referenced, no close paraphrasing seen in online sources. Image is public domain. QPQ done. Hook ref verified. However, I would rewrite the hook to make it more juicy, and leave out the picture:- ALT1: ... that pedestrians walking along Malet Street in London hear the sound of a stick hitting an iron railing ... though there's no railing in sight? Yoninah (talk) 13:20, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the review. I prefer the original hook to ALT1 as it seems better for hooks to be short and somewhat mysterious so the readers will click through. ALT1 is more than twice the length and contains extraneous phrases like "in London" which, in their efforts to explain everything, risk boring the reader. What I was hoping was that readers would mostly see the phrase phantom railings, be intrigued as to what they might be and then click through.- The main trouble now is that we need another review and I was hoping to get this prepped in time for Halloween.
- Andrew Davidson (talk) 17:48, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
