Template:Did you know nominations/Littlefield Fountain
- 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 Yoninah (talk) 23:12, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
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Littlefield Fountain
Littlefield Fountain
- ... that the Littlefield Fountain (pictured) is a war memorial to the University of Texas students and alumni who died in World War I? Source: "The gateway ... was, in a sense, a double memorial, attempting to satisfy both Littlefield’s desires to remember Southern history and Coppini’s wish to honor those who had participated in the recent world war." ([1])
- ALT1:... that sculptures in the Littlefield Fountain (pictured) depict Columbia alongside an American sailor and soldier, sailing overseas to fight in World War I? Source: "In an elevated pool ... was the bow of a ship, on which stood Columbia .... Behind her to each side stood a member of the Army and the Navy, collectively representing the U.S. armed forces. ... The fountain group showed a strong, united America sailing across the ocean to protect democracy abroad." ([2])
- Reviewed: Epidemic curve
Improved to Good Article status by Bryanrutherford0 (talk). Self-nominated at 18:25, 4 March 2020 (UTC).
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- Bryanrutherford0, the article passed its GA nom on 1 March 2020 and was nominated in time. As per GA quality it passes DYK criteria such as the policy requirements. QPQ done. Both hooks are sourced and quoted inline. But I just wanted to clarify one thing which caused a bit of hesitation in giving the green tick... the first DYK hook is sourced to a blog. Does this source adequately meet the requirements of WP:BLOGS? Or, if there is another source which says the same thing, please just point me to it. Thanks. DTM (talk) 07:31, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
- That's a great question. WP:BLOGS says that "self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable, independent publications." The author of that site, Jim Nicar, is also the author of another source cited here, an article in The Alcalde on the same subject. Nicar is a regular contributor to that publication, which is the official alumni magazine of the University and has editorial oversight and the features that WP expects from reliable sources. The fact that this author is regularly published in an official UT publication writing about the University's history, in my opinion, establishes him as an "expert" on UT history as recognized by the University itself, and he has certainly been published repeatedly by that magazine (here is a search for his articles). -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 14:24, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for the explanation. Just one last thing... the image. The image chosen for the DYK nom isn't the same one that is in the article. Although both are very similar... I guess they still need to be the same image as per WP:DYKIMG. DTM (talk) 02:52, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
- Ah, I see; I had picked one with a slightly tighter crop in the hope that it would read better at the smaller size in DYK, but I've changed it to now match the infobox image in the article. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 05:03, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, I don't think that would would have been a problem, but oh well, this is nice too. The image can be cropped of course in Commons. It is of good resolution so the sharpness will remain even with a decent amount of crop. As of now this is alright from my side.
- Good to go
DTM (talk) 06:46, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
- Ah, I see; I had picked one with a slightly tighter crop in the hope that it would read better at the smaller size in DYK, but I've changed it to now match the infobox image in the article. -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 05:03, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for the explanation. Just one last thing... the image. The image chosen for the DYK nom isn't the same one that is in the article. Although both are very similar... I guess they still need to be the same image as per WP:DYKIMG. DTM (talk) 02:52, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
- That's a great question. WP:BLOGS says that "self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established expert on the subject matter, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable, independent publications." The author of that site, Jim Nicar, is also the author of another source cited here, an article in The Alcalde on the same subject. Nicar is a regular contributor to that publication, which is the official alumni magazine of the University and has editorial oversight and the features that WP expects from reliable sources. The fact that this author is regularly published in an official UT publication writing about the University's history, in my opinion, establishes him as an "expert" on UT history as recognized by the University itself, and he has certainly been published repeatedly by that magazine (here is a search for his articles). -Bryan Rutherford (talk) 14:24, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
- Bryanrutherford0, the article passed its GA nom on 1 March 2020 and was nominated in time. As per GA quality it passes DYK criteria such as the policy requirements. QPQ done. Both hooks are sourced and quoted inline. But I just wanted to clarify one thing which caused a bit of hesitation in giving the green tick... the first DYK hook is sourced to a blog. Does this source adequately meet the requirements of WP:BLOGS? Or, if there is another source which says the same thing, please just point me to it. Thanks. DTM (talk) 07:31, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
