Talk:City of Seattle (steamship)

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Did you know... that the City of Seattle was built in Philadelphia?

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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 The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 02:01, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the City of Seattle was built in Philadelphia? Source: "the City of Seattle, built at Philadelphia" (Source)
- ALT1:... that the City of Seattle was once described as the handsomest steamer on Puget Sound? Source: "the City of Seattle can justly be described as the handsomest steamer on the Sound" (Source)

Reviewed: Thatbyinnyu Temple

Moved to mainspace by SamCordes (talk). Self-nominated at 00:43, 18 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

clever original hook! This review is for it and not alt1.

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: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: all good! not sure if this should be held for April Fools Day or not, but it is completly true and gramatically correct as written. great job! Found5dollar (talk) 18:50, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @Found5dollar:! I'm not sure how that process works, but I'd be willing to wait until then if need be, could definitely be a fun April Fool's hook. Up for whatever :) -- SamCordes^talk 00:27, 19 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]