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Did you know... that hundreds of spectators gathered at a nearby church and club to watch 689 Fifth Avenue catch on fire?
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... that hundreds of spectators gathered at a nearby church and club to watch 689 Fifth Avenue catch on fire? Source: "New Aeolian Building Scorched, 5th Ave. Traffic Tied Up by Fire". The New York Herald, New York Tribune. April 23, 1926. p. 1.
ALT1:... that a large red door marked the entrance to the Elizabeth Arden Red Door Salon at 689 Fifth Avenue? Source: Horsley, Carter B. (January 14, 1979). "Places: The Aeolian Building: A Bit of Paris on 5th Ave". The New York Times. p. R4.
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talk). Self-nominated at 23:30, 18 May 2021 (UTC).reply
Article was nominated within 7 days of creation. Article is well-written and cited with reliable sources. Earwigs pings some extended quotations but otherwise seems passable. Image is properly attributed and used in the article, but requires a caption. Hooks are cited and short enough for DYK; AGF on the offline sources (ALT0 is the most interesting IMO). Ping me once you've completed your QPQ and fixed the caption and I'll pass this nomination.
Morgan695 (
talk) 00:06, 20 May 2021 (UTC)reply
A fact from 689 Fifth Avenue appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 June 2021 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that hundreds of spectators gathered at a nearby church and club to watch 689 Fifth Avenue catch on fire?
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Architecture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
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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.
... that hundreds of spectators gathered at a nearby church and club to watch 689 Fifth Avenue catch on fire? Source: "New Aeolian Building Scorched, 5th Ave. Traffic Tied Up by Fire". The New York Herald, New York Tribune. April 23, 1926. p. 1.
ALT1:... that a large red door marked the entrance to the Elizabeth Arden Red Door Salon at 689 Fifth Avenue? Source: Horsley, Carter B. (January 14, 1979). "Places: The Aeolian Building: A Bit of Paris on 5th Ave". The New York Times. p. R4.
Created by
Epicgenius (
talk). Self-nominated at 23:30, 18 May 2021 (UTC).reply
Article was nominated within 7 days of creation. Article is well-written and cited with reliable sources. Earwigs pings some extended quotations but otherwise seems passable. Image is properly attributed and used in the article, but requires a caption. Hooks are cited and short enough for DYK; AGF on the offline sources (ALT0 is the most interesting IMO). Ping me once you've completed your QPQ and fixed the caption and I'll pass this nomination.
Morgan695 (
talk) 00:06, 20 May 2021 (UTC)reply