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
SL93 (
talk) 03:18, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
ALT1:... that the commissions of sewers were responsible for land drainage and flood defences in England from the 13th century until their abolition in 1930? "It is as well to recall that commissioners of sewers had their origin in the thirteenth century" from: Richardson, H. G. (1919).
"The Early History of Commissions of Sewers". The English Historical Review. 34 (135): 389.
ISSN0013-8266. and "The Land Drainage Act of 1930 put an end to commissions of sewers" from: Owen, A. E. B. (1967).
"15. Records of Commissions of Sewers". History. 52 (174): 36.
ISSN0018-2648.
Moved to mainspace by
Dumelow (
talk). Self-nominated at 07:02, 31 March 2021 (UTC).
New article that was moved to mainspace on 30 March is 7,678 characters and nominated one day later.
No copyvios detected and duplication detector
[1] reveal no close paraphrasing issues (AGF scanned refs which can't go through Dup detector). Article are well-sourced. Main hook is 121 characters long (ALT1 is 148); both are under the 200 character max. limit and are interesting. Refs 5 and 13 (verifying the hook and ALT1, respectively) are reliable sources. QPQ done. Looks good to go! —
Bloom6132 (
talk) 14:41, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
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
SL93 (
talk) 03:18, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
ALT1:... that the commissions of sewers were responsible for land drainage and flood defences in England from the 13th century until their abolition in 1930? "It is as well to recall that commissioners of sewers had their origin in the thirteenth century" from: Richardson, H. G. (1919).
"The Early History of Commissions of Sewers". The English Historical Review. 34 (135): 389.
ISSN0013-8266. and "The Land Drainage Act of 1930 put an end to commissions of sewers" from: Owen, A. E. B. (1967).
"15. Records of Commissions of Sewers". History. 52 (174): 36.
ISSN0018-2648.
Moved to mainspace by
Dumelow (
talk). Self-nominated at 07:02, 31 March 2021 (UTC).
New article that was moved to mainspace on 30 March is 7,678 characters and nominated one day later.
No copyvios detected and duplication detector
[1] reveal no close paraphrasing issues (AGF scanned refs which can't go through Dup detector). Article are well-sourced. Main hook is 121 characters long (ALT1 is 148); both are under the 200 character max. limit and are interesting. Refs 5 and 13 (verifying the hook and ALT1, respectively) are reliable sources. QPQ done. Looks good to go! —
Bloom6132 (
talk) 14:41, 31 March 2021 (UTC)