Template:Did you know nominations/Great Fire of Tartu

Great Fire of Tartu

 * ... that Peter the Great had outlawed stone buildings in Tartu before the Great Fire of 1775?

Created by Victuallers (talk). Self nominated at 16:57, 31 December 2013 (UTC).


 * QPQ = Bruton Dovecote Victuallers (talk) 16:44, 1 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol voting keep.svg I would prefer the hook to say "outlawed the stone buildings everywhere except in St. Petersburg", i.e. to tell the story the way it actually happened. But I guess it is in the spirit of DYK to twist everything a little bit. The article is certainly new enough and long enough. --Moscow Connection (talk) 17:24, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The hook has to summarise I think and not tell everything. For instance I think it is especially important for Tartu, which was then called Dorpat because Peter the Great had blown up every stone building in his city about seventy years before.... but we only have a short message to intrigue the reader. Thanks for the review and suggestions for the article. Lets hope we do intrigue Victuallers (talk) 20:34, 2 January 2014 (UTC)