Talk:Arthur Samuel Garretson

A fact from Arthur Samuel Garretson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 July 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Garretson, South Dakota, was named after businessman Arthur Samuel Garretson?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 97198 (talk) 09:11, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Garretson, South Dakota, was named after businessman Arthur Samuel Garretson?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Lord of the Ice Garden

Created by SL93 (talk). Self-nominated at 02:29, 4 July 2022 (UTC).[reply]

"Garretson bought real estate such as 1,200 farm acres, the Sioux City & Northern railway, the Pacific Short railway, factories, a Sioux City stock yards, mercantile corporations, and a California fruit farm." Railways are "real estate"? Hardly, they are companies. "A Sioux City stock yards" is ungrammatical, is it one or more than one? Gatoclass (talk) 08:42, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Gatoclass I'm not sure if you're just cranky, or your phrasing of the issues just comes off to me as cranky, but I fixed the very minor errors. SL93 (talk) 12:08, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

No more cranky than usual, I can assure you :) No - that comment was just intended as a simple statement of fact. This was not, BTW, intended as the beginning of a review, it was just a comment in passing, so I've added a re-review icon to clarify that. Gatoclass (talk) 12:50, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Gatoclass I was almost positive that it was the latter part of my statement. It can sometimes be hard for me to tell with typed words. Thanks for your pointing out the errors. I have a question for you though if you don't mind. The stockyards in Sioux City were named Union Stock Yards, which shares the same name as Chicago's Union Stock Yards. Do you think it's necessary to clarify that it's a different Union Stock Yards in the article? SL93 (talk) 18:40, 7 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Well it's up to you really, but personally I don't think I'd bother. Gatoclass (talk) 02:08, 8 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Created July 4, nom same day - new enough; 2585 char - long enough; cited; neutral; no apparent copyvios; no photo. Hook at 83 char is under the maximum; interesting; and neutral. QPQ done. GTG SusunW (talk) 18:20, 18 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]