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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: promoted by SL93 (talk) 18:10, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
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Dawnus
- ... that the 2019 collapse of Welsh construction company Dawnus caused gridlock in part of Manchester as plant was left in the highway? Source: "Manchester was left gridlocked on Tuesday and Wednesday after workers stopped in protest at 'not being paid' by Dawnus. They were working on a major project in the city centre when they left four large diggers and a truck in the middle of a road." from: Deacon, Thomas; Farell-Roig, Estel (14 March 2019). "City gridlocked as construction firm Dawnus 'fails to pay workers'". WalesOnline. Retrieved 21 February 2022.
Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 07:46, 22 February 2022 (UTC).
New enough and long enough. QPQ present. Hook fact checks out, but I would suggest to the promoter replacing "plant" with "equipment" or "heavy equipment"; I was given the distinct impression they had left plants in the road, and I suspect a lot of US readers would too. ALT0a with this change made below. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 23:37, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
- ALT0a: ... that the 2019 collapse of Welsh construction company Dawnus caused gridlock in part of Manchester as equipment was left in the highway?