Template:Did you know nominations/La Playa Trail
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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 00:22, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
La Playa Trail[edit]
- ... that the historic La Playa Trail in San Diego is the oldest commercial trail in the western United States?
Created/expanded by Dohn joe (talk). Nominated by MelanieN (talk) at 20:29, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
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Having a little difficulty finding the information with some of the specified references. For the last sentence of the first paragraph, you had used two sources, but had made one ref, with the URL of one and the title of the other. I've repaired it. You still need a reference for the third sentence of the first paragraph. Also, I wasn't able to find the information for the last two sentence in your second paragraph in the specified source. Please just do a generalize check of your references. Date and length are fine. Hook correctly formatted and cited. No copy vios detected as yet. Article well-written. Will look at again later this afternoon. Anne (talk) 20:14, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks for the fix of the malformed reference. I have improved the other references as you suggested. --MelanieN (talk) 20:33, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
- You still need to do a little work on references. The information in the second half of the second paragraph isn't found in source #8, the Swanson reference. Source #9, the Morley reference, is a snippet which only addresses a small portion of the first third of the third paragraph. Source #10 is a subscription reference, AGF. In the second half of the third paragraph, you mention the fuel depot at Naval Base Point Loma. However, your source, ref #12 La Playa Trail Markers, indicates that the fuel depot was in La Playa, which on the map for that source is north of Point Loma. Also, the very last sentence of the article needs an inline citation. I've added an image and caption (the 1850 map of San Diego) to the article. Thanks to the two of you for creating and nominating this article. Anne (talk) 13:34, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for adding the map! We had identified that map as something we would like to have in the article, but didn't know how to pull it in; I had asked a friend for help but he hadn't gotten to it yet. The map adds a lot to the article, thank you.
I see that the older map labels "Point Loma" in a way that could be misunderstood; it could lead to the impression that "Point Loma" refers to just the southern tip of the Point Loma peninsula. In fact the entire peninsula is Point Loma, from "False Bay" (now Mission Bay) on the north to the southern tip. The modern map at the same reference makes that clearer. La Playa is exactly where both maps show it: At the southern terminus of the trail, on the east (Bay) side of Point Loma, and currently on the grounds of Naval Station Point Loma.
I'll take a look at the other references. --MelanieN (talk) 14:36, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
You're good to go! Also, next time you write an article and have a photo that you'd like to add, just give me a holler (it doesn't have to be for DYK). I'll make sure that it has an appropriate license and add it for you. Also, for your next article, we can explore the issue of infoboxes (assuming you've never used one previously). I can help you with that, too. Again, it doesn't have to be for DYK, although I think that DYK is a great place to learn how to develop articles. Anne (talk) 13:39, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you very much for adding the map! We had identified that map as something we would like to have in the article, but didn't know how to pull it in; I had asked a friend for help but he hadn't gotten to it yet. The map adds a lot to the article, thank you.
- Thanks for the fix of the malformed reference. I have improved the other references as you suggested. --MelanieN (talk) 20:33, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
