Talk:Richmond, Indiana, facility fire

Richmond, Indiana, facility fire is currently a World history good article nominee. Nominated by ~ Tails Wx (🐾, ⛈️) at 16:39, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

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Short description: 2023 plastics processing facility fire in Richmond, Indiana

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A fact from Richmond, Indiana, facility fire appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that three years prior to last month's massive plastics fire in Indiana, a court determined that the site was a fire hazard "unsafe to people and property"?

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Notability?[edit]

This seems to be to be a non-important event in the grand scheme of things. WP:NEVENT requires a lasting impact, and it may be WP:TOOSOON to see if that is met. BhamBoi (talk) 17:02, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know, WP:LASTING states It may take weeks or months to determine whether or not an event has a lasting effect. This does not, however, mean recent events with unproven lasting effect are automatically non-notable. If your point is the case, I'm leaning towards draftifying it once again, though should a third opinion also be requested on this? Tails Wx 17:17, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No, I want it kept, but I know events with no deaths like this often get rejected at AfC or deleted from mainspace at AfD. Like Draft:2023 La Salle fire got rejected, and seems to be to be a similar scale event. BhamBoi (talk) 17:24, 13 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 15:41, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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View of the fire an hour after ignition

~~... that failure to address unsafe building concerns raised in 2019 led to a massive plastics fire in Indiana last month?~~ Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/us/indiana-richmond-fire-city-hearing/index.html
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Auto-GPT
- Comment: If this does not run until May, "this month" should be changed to "last month."

Created by Tails Wx (talk). Nominated by 28bytes (talk) at 12:33, 17 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Richmond, Indiana facility fire; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

I shall review this. Storye book (talk) 15:17, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice article, thank you for uploading this. Re copyvio, Earwig finds only proper names and common phrases, so I believe that this article is plagiarism-free.

Note to promoter: articles about a big fire always draw attention, so I suggest that this one goes to DYK with its picture, please? Storye book (talk) 15:28, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Storye book, Tails Wx, and 28bytes: Our article does not state that the unsafe building conditions directly led to the cause of the fire. I do not see the two connected in our article. Bruxton (talk) 02:35, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Bruxton: @Tails Wx and 28bytes: I had understood the hook to mean that the hazardous conditions in the building led to the massiveness of the fire, not to the cause of the fire (which apparently started in a truck parked next to the building). But I see what you mean, so I have struck ALT0. Please could we have an ALT1, which matches the source and the article precisely? Thank you. Storye book (talk) 07:56, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Bruxton and Storye book: How about this as ALT1:

ALT1: ... that three years prior to last month's massive plastics fire in Indiana (pictured), a court determined that the site was a fire hazard "unsafe to people and property"? Source: https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/12/us/indiana-richmond-fire-city-hearing/index.html

28bytes (talk) 20:55, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@28bytes: the hook needs to be in the article and cited. I am not seeing this information in our article. Bruxton (talk) 22:45, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Bruxton: Sorry for the oversight, it is in there now. 28bytes (talk) 00:08, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It works, just need @Storye book: to approve Bruxton (talk) 01:03, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go, with ALT1 and image (note that if the hook is on the main page in May, the words "this month's" will have to be changed to "last month's".). Storye book (talk) 05:59, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Promoting, sorry but I did not find the image interesting. Someone can overrule me if they like. Bruxton (talk) 15:40, 21 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

what is this facility actually called?[edit]

Like, what was its name at the time of the fire? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 00:35, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My Way Trading Warehouse, it's supposed to be clarified, right? Tails Wx 00:42, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

gotcha, so maybe this article should be at My Way Trading House fire? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 00:54, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm neutral on this, should a requested move be considered? Tails Wx 01:33, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]