Template:Did you know nominations/Bradenton Riverwalk

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 16:59, 8 May 2018 (UTC)

Bradenton Riverwalk

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• ... that the Bradenton Riverwalk attracts 100,000 people to the downtown Bradenton area every year? Source: [1] "Per the American for the Arts economic impact calculator, our 75+ events attract 100,000 people to downtown..."

• Reviewed: Joe Mayo

Created by TheGridExe (talk). Self-nominated at 15:27, 19 April 2018 (UTC).

• The hook is not so hooky. And footnote 1 says 250,000 people visit annually. Perhaps you could expand the part about the silt dredging, and connect it to the waterfront park. Yoninah (talk) 21:35, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

@Yoninah: The 250,000 people figure from the City of Bradenton page was a projection done before the Riverwalk opened. I thought about using that figure but I didn't like it being an estimate before it even was being used. I went with the conservative 100,000 people figure as it's something more computed from data gathered. I was also wanting to improve the Sand Pile portion as well - I was able to get aerials of the area from the 1970s and it's clearly shown why it got the nickname. Just have to find the best way to incorporate the imagery and if there's any public domain imagery or something with proper licenses. – TheGridExe (talk) 01:42, 2 May 2018 (UTC)

ALT1 ... that the Bradenton Riverwalk area was originally nicknamed "The Sand Pile" in the 1960s due to river dredging projects along the Manatee River? Sources: [2], [3]

See if the above works better? @Yoninah: – TheGridExe (talk) 13:05, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

• @TheGridExe: yes, and it would be even hookier if you shorten it to:
• ALT1a: ... that the Bradenton Riverwalk area was originally nicknamed "The Sand Pile"? Yoninah (talk) 18:42, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

I have no objections to that! Thank you for the help! – TheGridExe (talk) 20:04, 7 May 2018 (UTC)

New, in time, long enough, sourced, inline hook citations check out (distinction between "Sand Pile" and "sandpile" is irrelevant for what was presumably a spoken nickname), QPQ done. Rephrased one sentence to avoid copyvios. --Usernameunique (talk) 07:36, 8 May 2018 (UTC)