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William Roberts & Co of Nelson

 * ... that only two steam engines made by William Roberts & Co of Nelson are known to survive?

Created by Bcripple (talk). Nominated by Pigsonthewing (talk) at 20:45, 4 May 2013 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg After a preliminary read through of the article, I have the following comments/queries:
 * 1) The article is titled "William Roberts & Co of Burnley", whereas the article on the Bancroft Mill engine  refers to to "William Roberts and Son, Nelson", as does the Wikipedia article on Queen Street Mill. I know Nelson and Burnley are only a few miles apart, but what name was the company actually registered as?
 * 2) At present, the hook fact is not actually cited with an inline citation in the article as required. The source for this claim must be given.
 * 3) There is a reference to the Bancroft Mill website, but this goes to the main page rather than a specific page/article. You will need to provide a more specific reference.
 * 4) All but one reference are to the Shackleton book. Rather than a general citation to the book, you should include the page number for each fact cited.
 * 5) The article could do with being broken into sections to make it more easily readable.

If the creator of the article can address these points, I will review it again. -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 07:34, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 1,3,& 5 are resolved. I don't currently have access to the cited source, so can't help with the rest. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:39, 5 May 2013 (UTC)


 * Alt1 hook: ... that engines made by William Roberts & Co of Nelson are still steamed regularly? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:02, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

The article has now been comprehensively edited since my initial review. My initial query #4 remains outstanding but should not prevent the article being OK for DYK. As it does not seem possible to conclusively prove the initial hook, I am happy to approve the Alt1 hook. For the sake of regularity, I can confirm that the article length and age are fine, there are no copyvio or plagiarism concerns and that reliable sources are used. -- Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 06:42, 7 May 2013 (UTC)