Talk:Roy Wilkins Park

A fact from Roy Wilkins Park appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 February 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that before the creation of Roy Wilkins Park in 1976, the site was described as a wasteland with eighteen "rat-infested" buildings and a "leaking swimming pool full of dead dogs"?

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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 BlueMoonset (talk) 07:05, 2 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Roy Wilkins Park, built on the site of a hospital, was initially maintained by a private organization because the New York City government did not have funds? Source: NY Times 1985
- ALT1:... that New York City's Roy Wilkins Park, formerly part of a hospital, was created to help the majority-black populations of the surrounding areas? Source: NY Times 1993

Reviewed: George Harrison Barbour
Comment: These are quite lame hooks, so I'll come up with more later.

Created by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 03:37, 15 January 2020 (UTC).[reply]

This article is new enough and plenty long enough. The article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. I am proposing ALT 2 as being rather hookier. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:02, 21 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ALT2 ... that before the foundation of Roy Wilkins Park in 1976, the site was described as being wasteland with 18 "rat-infested" buildings and "a leaking swimming pool full of dead dogs"?
- @Cwmhiraeth: Thanks for the review. Yeah, ALT2 sounds good. epicgenius (talk) 03:40, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

We need a new reviewer for ALT2. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:46, 23 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New ALT is interesting, accurate and cited in article. All good to go with ALT2. Achaea (talk) 19:49, 24 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]