Template:Did you know nominations/Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 13:02, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
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Herbert Hoover National Historic Site[edit]
- ... that over 17,000 visitors came to see the Herbert Hoover Birthplace (pictured) in 1928 after Hoover was nominated for President of the United States?
- Reviewed: Quasipaa spinosa
5x expanded by Teemu08 (talk). Self nominated at 21:51, 18 December 2013 (UTC).
- Reviewed by Iselilja
- QPQ done
- Five-fold expanded within five days
- All paragraphs are sourced, almost solely to various National Park Service online sites (+pdf). Spotchecks revealed no major close paraphrasing problems; tiny tendencies; don't think it can be fully avoided when there is little variety of sources.
- The hook is interesting and short enough; source was placed at end of paragraph, I moved it to end of sentence (named ref). Ideally, there should be a page number for the hook since it was in a larger PDF (Page 33). The source doesn't say 1928, but "In the first year after Hoover's candidacy". I would just like the writer to comment on that.
- Picture free of copyright
Iselilja (talk) 23:06, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
- Thanks for the review, @Iselilja:. I see where you are concerned. It does appear that the number represents the full year following the nomination. I erroneously assumed it was the calender year, but after following up on the sources cited in the NHL documentation, it definitely appears that you are correct. I will re-write the blurb so that it more accurately reflects this: Teemu08 (talk) 15:40, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
- Alt1 ... that in the year following Herbert Hoover's nomination for President of the United States, over 17,000 visitors came to see his birthplace (pictured) in West Branch, Iowa?
- Thanks for the review, @Iselilja:. I see where you are concerned. It does appear that the number represents the full year following the nomination. I erroneously assumed it was the calender year, but after following up on the sources cited in the NHL documentation, it definitely appears that you are correct. I will re-write the blurb so that it more accurately reflects this: Teemu08 (talk) 15:40, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
