Template:Did you know nominations/Great Vancouver Fire

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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: rejected by Flibirigit (talk) 20:11, 7 July 2020 (UTC)

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Great Vancouver Fire

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  • ... that shortly after Vancouver was incorporated as a city it was destroyed by the Great Vancouver Fire? Sources: Vancouver is ashes Lisa Smith 2014 "with explosive fury, the fire sweeps through Vancouver's city core, devouring every building in its path.", James Matthews Volume 1 Vancouver Historical Journal 1958 p.32-42, peititon for incorporation p. 32-33, timeline for passing of incorporation bill p.35 [1]
    • ALT1:... that shortly after Vancouver was incorporated as a city it was destroyed by the Great Vancouver Fire which started as two land clearing fires?
    • ALT2:... that shortly after Vancouver was incorporated as a city it was destroyed by the Great Vancouver Fire which reduced the city to "ashes"? Source: telegram sent from Vancouver Mayor MacLean to the Canadian Prime Minister June 13, 1886 "Our city is ashes three thousand people homeless can you send us any government aid" found in Vancouver is ashes Lisa Smith 2014

5x expanded by Clemlivy aikensnaps (talk). Self-nominated at 01:01, 30 May 2020 (UTC).

  • Expansion is new enough, long enough, and well-written. Good sources. To condense the hook I'm proposing an ALT3: "... that the 1886 Great Vancouver Fire reduced the new Canadian city to "ashes"?" Also I'm a new nominator, and would like a second opinion. Cstickel(byu) (talk) 13:53, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
  • New reviewer needed to check ALT3, and also to give a second review, which does not mention neutrality or close paraphrasing/copyvio checks. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:03, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
  • I was asked to have a look at this on my talk page. This is technically an automatic DYK fail because of the maintenance tag. Having no page numbers for any of the cited books/journal articles makes it impossible to verify anything because no one is going to (or should be expected to) read a whole book looking for the cited material, let alone a whole bibliography. That really needs to be fixed before anything else can go forward here. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 14:06, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
  • Inserting maybe/no icon as per comments above. Flibirigit (talk) 09:10, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
  • Considering PMC's note, and also that the nominator is a student in a course and has not edited since posting this on May 30, I am marking this nomination for closure as unsuccessful. Yoninah (talk) 18:59, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
  • Rejecting nomination. Hopefully I can become GA class and be nominated again later. Flibirigit (talk) 20:11, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
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