Talk:American Viscose Plant Historic District

A fact from American Viscose Plant Historic District appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 November 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that smokestacks at a former rayon mill were stabilized by dropping bricks into them?

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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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 17:36, 31 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that smokestacks at a former rayon mill were stabilized by collapsing them in on themselves? Source: "Crews will chip away the brick towers and pitch the rubble into the hollow center. When the rubble-filled core meets the whittled-down edges, the crews will stop. What's left will be shorter, solid towers." Howell, Isak. "Landmark Chimneys Fail to Stack Up Against Ravages of Time, Weather". The Roanoke Times. November 21, 2001. Page A1. [1]
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- Comment: First DYK nomination - Newspapers.com is currently temporarily unavailable from the Wikipedia Library - included a Newsbank link, but will update with one from Newspapers.com once it is up and running

Created by DrOrinScrivello (talk). Self-nominated at 16:21, 28 September 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/American Viscose Plant Historic District; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

New enough and plenty long enough. Hook fact checks out and is rather interesting. @DrOrinScrivello: I would look at [2] and try to reduce the close paraphrasing in a few passages to the NRHP nomination form. Also leaving A1 and A2 for you to use as well and to help others verify the hook. Just needs to not have some of the phrases paralleling the nomination. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 17:37, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
- @Sammi Brie: Thanks for your review. I believe I've taken care of the worst of it, if you'd like to take a look. What's left is mostly names of organizations. Thanks again. DrOrinScrivello (talk) 18:52, 29 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  - Looking better. From experience, you have to be careful when running parallel to an NRHP nomination form like that. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 05:07, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]