Template:Did you know nominations/Dumas Brothel

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The result was: promoted by Miyagawa (talk) 22:09, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Dumas Brothel

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• ... that the Dumas Brothel, believed to be haunted, was the longest-operating brothel in the United States?

• Comment: If this doesn't get the most clicks ever I don't know what will.
• QPQ: Calectasia grandiflora

Improved to Good Article status by Ceradon (talk). Self nominated at 16:20, 19 February 2015 (UTC).

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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: It could be quite easy to adopt a snickering or tongue-in-cheek tone for this article. It is to the editor's credit that this has been avoided. I also feel it is commendable that the editor contributed the graphic used in the article. This article is GTG, and yes, I will follow this intriguing article out of curiosity to see how many page views it garners.Georgejdorner (talk) 18:10, 19 February 2015 (UTC)