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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 RoySmith (talk) 14:22, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

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H. E. and A. Bown, Jubilee Memorial, Harrogate

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Jubilee Memorial by Arthur Bown, 1887
Jubilee Memorial by Arthur Bown, 1887

Moved to mainspace by Storye book (talk). Self-nominated at 17:57, 17 October 2022 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Storye book: Good work! Im going to have to approve this in good faith due to my lack of access for these sources. Just my opinion though but there are way too many subsections for the H. E. and A. Bown article. It makes the article feel cluttered. Onegreatjoke (talk) 22:53, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

  • Thank you, Onegreatjoke for the review and the kind comment. Much appreciated.
  • Re the number of subsections: The subsections are almost all names of buildings designed by the biography subject. All those buildings are the main matters of interest for most of the readers who will be using the article as a first stop to their studies. Yorkshire is an area where ordinary people take great pride in their county - and that includes local history and those buildings which represent that history. Bown is one of those architectural practices which worked very locally, so most of their stuff is in Harrogate. People will be coming to the article looking for a particular building, and the subsections link that building into the index at the top. That makes the article user-friendly. I'm sorry if it doesn't fit your idea of the perfect school essay, but this article - like many on WP - is a working facility for first-stop study, and it needs to be like that. If I were writing about, say, one of those famous-for-being-famous minor celebs, then I wouldn't need to make subsections, because those minor celebs never achieve anything worth looking for in the index.
  • Another reason for putting building names into subsections is that they can then be linked into other articles, e.g. like this: [[H. E. and A. Bown#Queen's Park Lodge and fountain, Heywood, Greater Manchester, 1878–1879|Queen's Park Lodge and Fountain]] to look like this: Queen's Park Lodge and Fountain. That link could be used in the Queen's Park, Heywood article for example, one day when it gets created. Storye book (talk) 08:21, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
  • @Onegreatjoke: Sorry, I have just realised that you have only mentioned the H. E. and A. Bown article. This is a double nomination, so does your review cover the Jubilee Memorial, Harrogate article as well? You are of course under no obligation to review both, but if you are only reviewing one, I shall need to call for a second reviewer to sign off the second article. Please let us know? Thank you. Storye book (talk) 19:34, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
@Storye book: I reviewed both. Onegreatjoke (talk) 21:53, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
Thank you for clarifying that, Onegreatjoke. Much appreciated. Storye book (talk) 07:36, 20 October 2022 (UTC)
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