Talk:Wards of New York City

A fact from Wards of New York City appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that New York City was divided into wards between 1683 and 1938?

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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 97198 (talk) 09:30, 7 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Wards of New York City in 1683

... that New York City was divided into wards (1683 map pictured) between 1683 and 1938? Source: "On ... 1683 the city was divided into six wards." (Stone p. 115) and "wards were formally abolished in 1938." (Forgotten NY)
- ALT1:... that the Wards of New York City (1683 map pictured) were given numbers in 1791? Source: "In 1791, wards were given numerical designations." (Forgotten NY)

Reviewed: 70 Pine Street
Comment: A decent amount of content was imported from New York City Board of Aldermen (which I had also written). This is the latest diff without such importations, so use that for length/newness purposes. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 05:45, 4 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Created by John M Wolfson (talk). Self-nominated at 05:45, 4 April 2020 (UTC).[reply]

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: Interesting:

Image eligibility:

Freely licensed:
Used in article:
Clear at 100px: - Names of the various wards are too small to be easily read.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: MrClog (talk) 11:42, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know how to change the composition of the map (which is an SVG FWIW) without making it worse (removing the modern shoreline, placing the names outside of the wards, etc.). Perhaps the set can be promoted without the image. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 18:17, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Accepting main hook without image. --MrClog (talk) 22:38, 5 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]