Template:Did you know nominations/Yosemite Valley Railroad

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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: rejected by Trainsandotherthings (talk) 13:10, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Yosemite Valley Railroad

  • ... that the Yosemite Valley Railroad was a popular mode of transportation for Hollywood celebrities visiting Yosemite National Park in the 1920s? Source: Johnston, Hank. Railroads of the Yosemite Valley. Corona Del Mar, California: Trans-Anglo Book. ISBN 0-87046-055-2.
    • ALT1: ... that the Yosemite Valley Railroad opened in 1907, the year after Yosemite was designated as a National Park? Source: FROM MERCED TO EL PORTAL: The Canyon Route to Yosemite. Foley's Yosemite Souvenir & Guide. 1907.
    • Reviewed:

5x expanded by Guywelch2000 (talk). Self-nominated at 05:14, 28 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Yosemite Valley Railroad; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

  • Date, size (5x expansion) are fine. Spotcheck did not find a copyvio issues, hooks are interesting. However, the article has a major problem due to insufficient references. Many paragraphs are not referenced, that includes the primary hook about celebrities. (There is a source provided above, but with no page number, and the source needs to be present in the article anyway). I am also not seeing a QPQ review linked (the nom/author has at least one another DYK nom credited on their talk page). --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 09:05, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
  • It's been a month and the author has neglected to improve the article. As such, I am closing this nomination. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 13:09, 27 March 2023 (UTC)