Template:Did you know nominations/San Caio
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The result was: promoted by Jolly Ω Janner 23:36, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
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San Caio[edit]
Watercolor of San Caio by Achille Pinelli
- ... that the ancient church of San Caio (pictured) in Rome was demolished in 1878 during the construction of the Italian Ministry of Defense building?
- Reviewed: Willie Ogg
Created by Alekjds (talk). Self-nominated at 11:23, 18 March 2016 (UTC).
New enough and long enough. No close paraphrasing. Image licensing looks OK. The hook is sourced to p. 173 of Armellini 1887 - but as far as I can see the page mentions the destruction, but not the year, nor the Via XX Settembre (my reading of Italian is purely based on interintelligibility with Spanish, but I think I understand most of it). Simon Burchell (talk) 10:03, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
- Hello Simon Burchell, thanks for the review. The hook fact is a bit implicit in the Italian-language source, so I'll explain it here. Armellini, writing in 1887, writes: La chiesa è stata abbattuta da due anni appena [...] per la fabbrica del palazzo del ministero della guerra e della mostruosa via laterale a questo. Translated: "The church has been demolished for just two years now [...] for the construction of the palazzo of the Ministry of War and the monstrous street to its side." Two years before 1887 is 1885, and the Ministry of War is now called the Ministry of Defense. — AJDS talk 10:31, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
- OK for the year/ministry, but the article gives the street name Via XX Settembre, which is not supported by a cite (presumably the ministry has more than one street running past it). Would it be possible to drop in a cite with an explicit reference to the street? Simon Burchell (talk) 11:46, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
- Okay — I have explicitly cited the Via XX Settembre, from a book published by the Museo di Roma. The thing is, that source says the church was demolished in 1878. Since I was only extrapolating from Armellini, and the Museo di Roma source is more exact with the dating, I would now propose to change the date in the hook to 1878. I've changed it in the article as well. (Also, because it's a foreign language source, I'll translate: L'edificio [...] fu demolita nel 1878 per l'allargamento dell'antica Via Pia nel tratto poi denominato via XX Settembre. → "The building was demolished in 1878 for the enlargement of the ancient Via Pia in the part [of which] is now called Via XX Settembre.") — AJDS talk 15:16, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
That's much better, thanks. I've changed the hook. Good to go. Simon Burchell (talk) 15:24, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
