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The following discussion 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 Allen3 talk 16:30, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Yad Kennedy[edit]

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Yad Kennedy (Israel JFK Memorial)

  • ... that Yad Kennedy is a 60-foot tall Israeli memorial honoring John F. Kennedy, in the shape of a tree trunk from a tree chopped down in the prime of its life?

Created/expanded by NearTheZoo (talk). Self nom at 16:01, 3 September 2012 (UTC)

  • 5x expansion verified. Article nomination meets 5-day window. I formatted the references, removed the unnecessary biographical information about JFK and some POV material, and reorganized the presentation per other Wikipedia site articles. I noted a few places where citations are needed (the citation named "mtgs" was the same URL as "pa"). I'd also like to suggest a revised hook:
  • ALT1: ... that Yad Kennedy (pictured), a 60 feet (18 m) high Israeli memorial honoring John F. Kennedy, is shaped like the trunk of a felled tree, symbolizing a life cut short? Yoninah (talk) 22:48, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
  • ALT1 sounds good to me. Put in reference to replace citation needed tag. All refs seem to work fine now. Thanks! NearTheZoo (talk) 01:21, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
  • Hook ref is verified and all references check out. Waiting for another editor to OK my hook suggestion (per Rule H2). Yoninah (talk) 10:01, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
  • As the editor who nominated this article, if it is enough for me to formally change my recommended hook to ALT1, I do that now. NearTheZoo (talk) 11:52, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
  • The page creator just created a new article about the architect who designed the Yad Kennedy monument, David Resnick. How about a double hook? (As I am nominating this second nomination, no QPQ is necessary. But someone needs to review the new article.)
  • ALT2: ... that Yad Kennedy (pictured), a 60 feet (18 m) high Israeli memorial to John F. Kennedy designed by architect David Resnick, is shaped like the trunk of a felled tree, symbolizing a life cut short? Yoninah (talk) 14:31, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
  • Needs reviewer to do the newly added David Resnick article and approve ALT2; Yad Kennedy is already approved per Yoninah. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:11, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
Interesting article, good reading, many sources. A few suggestions for the article: format the references, at present almost all blue, with just a link to the title. Arrange the pics that they match the text. Consider to mention the different spellings of his name a bit later, it takes very long until we know that he is an architect. Are there redirects from the other spellings? Then bold them, please. The hook: it's well referenced (that ref formatted!) and I like it, but I am not so fond of the size in two systems (there's a tree in the image for comparison), and I could imagine to quote the wording of the source:
ALT3: ... that Yad Kennedy (pictured), a memorial to John F. Kennedy in Israel designed by architect David Resnick, is shaped like "a tree trunk representing untimely death". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:51, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
  • All changes recommended by Gerda Arendt made.
  • Regarding the hook, I don't mind having the size taken out, but don't like "untimely death," which could be from illness or a host of other reasons. The memorial is described as the trunk of a felled tree, representing a life cut short or a life cut down in its prime, both descriptions using the active verb "cut," not just a death that was untimely. So I recommend:
    *ALT4: ... that Yad Kennedy (pictured), an Israeli memorial to John F. Kennedy designed by architect David Resnick, is shaped like the trunk of a felled tree, symbolizing a life cut short?" NearTheZoo (talk) 00:57, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
ALT4 best, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:43, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
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