Template:Did you know nominations/Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway
- 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:07, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
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Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway[edit]
Superintendent of the M.R. & B.T. in a draisine
- ... that the engine frames of the Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway had to be extra heavy? Source: Steve Llanso: Mississippi River & Bonne Terre 4-6-2 "Pacific" Locomotives of the USA.
- ALT1:... that the engine frames of the Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway had to be extra heavy, to withstand rough usage? Source: Steve Llanso: Mississippi River & Bonne Terre 4-6-2 "Pacific" Locomotives of the USA.
- ALT2:... that the Mississippi River and Bonne Terre Railway proved to be an important factor in the development of the Lead Belt in Missouri? Source: L.K. Strouse: ICC Reports: Decisions of the ICC of the USA (online)
- Reviewed: Vier Tondichtungen nach A. Böcklin
Created by NearEMPTiness (talk). Self-nominated at 10:17, 11 April 2017 (UTC).
The article is new - created 10 April 2017 - and it is plenty long enough. The tone is neutral and encyclopaedic. There are citations although some references that I cannot access but seem reasonable to accept on good faith. The hook is OK and article of wide interest. Some text is too close to that found on other web pages. For example "The Missouri Pacific bought the M.R. & B.T. in 1929 and incorporated it into the Missouri-Illinois Railroad, which ran it as an independent subsidiary until 1945" appears to have been taken directly from here - this needs to be addressed. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 19:37, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
- @Gaius Cornelius: Thank you for the thorough review and helpful comment. I have subsequently re-phrased some sentences that were similar to the RustedRails website, indeed. I get now 34.6% as a result in the Earwig's Copyvio Detector shown in the tool box above. When I look at the highlighted words, I hope that will be acceptable. NearEMPTiness (talk) 21:10, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
That is great; we are good to go! I enjoyed reading the article. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 09:16, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
