Template:Did you know nominations/Ipswich Street line

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 20:58, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Ipswich Street line

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... that streetcars on the Ipswich Street line ran on both Boylston Street and Boylston Street? Source: "New Electric Car Routes". Boston Globe. July 30, 1900. p. 12 – via Newspapers.com.

Reviewed: Constance Sladen

Created by Pi.1415926535 (talk). Self-nominated at 02:04, 8 June 2020 (UTC).

Article is definitely new enough at the time it was nominated, long enough and well-sourced. I like the hook: it made me read, which I think any good hook should do. QPQ is done with that article having been promoted. I think this is good to go. --Sky Harbor ^(talk) 03:55, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi, I came by to promote this, but I cannot find the hook fact in the article. I would have expected to see something spelling it out, like Boylston Street (Massachusetts Route 9). Yoninah (talk) 11:10, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

@Yoninah: The second sentence of the third paragraph under History reads The full route opened around the end of the month; streetcars ran from the Cypress Street carhouse on existing tracks on Cypress Street and Boylston Street, on new tracks northeast on Brookline Avenue and east on Boylston Street and Ipswich Street, then east on existing tracks on Boylston Street to the subway. I added a pair of wikilinks to clarify which Boylston Street is which, but I can't see how that doesn't qualify as having the hook fact in the article. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:32, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

Thanks, now I see where you're mentioning it, and I also see what's written in the Boston Globe article. But how do you know that the first Boylston Street is Massachusetts Route 9 instead of another direction on Boylston Street? I'm not trying to be difficult here, just trying to understand where you're seeing this in the source given. Yoninah (talk) 20:36, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

@Yoninah: It's clear from the geography. The Boylston Street that's now Route 9 was the only route between Cypress Street and Brookline Village; the Boylston Street in Fenway-Kenmore and the Back Bay ends at Brookline Avenue a mile away. I can add a map source, but I don't think it's necessary. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:46, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

No, that's fine. Restoring tick per Sky Harbor's review. Yoninah (talk) 20:57, 22 June 2020 (UTC)