Talk:Hartington Road Halt railway station

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A fact from Hartington Road Halt railway station appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 September 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Hartington Road Halt in Brighton, which closed after five years, was accidentally opened illegally?

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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 SL93 (talk) 20:11, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that when the LB&SCR opened Hartington Road Halt in Brighton, they forgot to tell the Board of Trade—who found out about it in a newspaper? Source: Harding (1999) p9 (ref [12]). The quote "Unfortunately, the LB&SCR opened this new halt without informing the Board of Trade who only found out when the following article appeared in the 18 December 1905 edition of The Times" and subsequent sentences give the gist.
- ALT1: ... that Hartington Road Halt in Brighton, which closed after five years, was accidentally opened illegally? Source: As above, but a punchier hook.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tobia Nicotra
- Comment: Expanded from a 2-sentence stub. A note on Harding (1999): while his booklets are self-published, Peter Harding is an acknowledged (by railway publications) subject-matter expert on branch lines and provides full bibliographies and lists of sources in his publications. The correspondence relating to the accidental illegal opening is quoted in the book and has been sourced directly from the original documents at The National Archives. I am happy that The Kemp Town Branch Line can be considered a credible source.

5x expanded by Hassocks5489 (talk). Self-nominated at 15:26, 2 September 2022 (UTC).[reply]

The article is long enough, new enough (nominated on the day of the expansion), and within policy. Copyvio checker gives only 2.9% similarity with the external link. Both hooks are fine, though I prefer ALT1 somewhat. Unfortunately, I cannot check any of the sources as they are either printed or behind a paywall. If the promoter takes issue with this, I'd be happy to re-review if provided with photos/scans of the relevant pages. Regards, IceWelder [✉] 11:30, 11 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]