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A fact from Looe Bridge appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 January 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the medieval Looe Bridge had either 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, or 18 arches?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Looe Bridge.

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:01, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the medieval Looe Bridge had either 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, or 18 arches? Source: Each number of arches has individual footnote in article §Medieval bridge (1411–1853)
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Zungeni Mountain skirmish

Created by MIDI (talk). Self-nominated at 13:13, 11 January 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Hi MIDI, review follows: article moved to mainspace today; article is well written and exceeds minimum length; sources used are reliable; I didn't pick up any overly close paraphrasing from a sample of the online sources; hook is interesting (I wonder it it was repaired at various time changing the number of arches), mentioned in the article and checks out to hook cited; shame there doesn't appear to be a drawing of the medieval bridge online anywhere. Just awaiting a QPQ. One minor comment: you give the construction as being of "Slatestone rubble, granite" in the infobox but this is not cited or mentioned in the main body - Dumelow (talk) 13:57, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Dumelow: – all valid points! Certainly a shame about the image especially when it sounds like sketches were made by notable people. I do like to include images with my DYK noms, but given that the most interesting DYK material in this article is about the old bridge, it would be a photo for a photo's sake this time. I've sorted the inclusion/referencing of the materials~~, so just a QPQ to do now I hope~~. MIDI (talk) 20:12, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

QPQ now done. MIDI (talk) 20:36, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I agree that a photo of the modern bridge is not appropriate. All good to go on this one - Dumelow (talk) 06:57, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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This rang alarm bells in my head. Leland was alive in the sixteenth century, how could he have been writing about the demolition of a bridge in the nineteenth century? Harrison in The Bridges of Medieval England attributes this to Henderson and Coates, and Google Books seems to corroborate this despite it being a snippet view. I've edited this.

I've also built a Wikimedia Commons category and linked to the pre-existing Wikidata page (someone built Wikidata entries for all listed buildings in the UK, which is nice). It was a great reminder of Cornish holidays to read this! Blythwood (talk) 00:32, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]