Talk:Stony Island (Michigan)

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A fact from Stony Island (Michigan) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 September 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that after decades of being a central hub for river dredging operations, Stony Island's population was reduced to a caretaker and his two dogs?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 09:12, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that, after spending decades as a central hub for river dredging operations, Stony Island's only inhabitants for ten years were a caretaker and his two dogs? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)
- ALT1:... that ...? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/River Works station

5x expanded by JPxG (talk). Self-nominated at 23:03, 2 September 2021 (UTC).[reply]

the hook looks promising, but I suggest it could be shortened a bit more. Maybe like:

ALT1: ... that after being a central hub for river dredging operations, Stony Island's population was reduced to only a caretaker and his two dogs?--ZKang123 (talk) 02:30, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@ZKang123: I was trying to come up with a more succinct way to phrase the hook, and what you just came up with is brilliant. I love it! How about this:

ALT2: ... that after decades of being a central hub for river dredging operations, Stony Island's population was reduced to a caretaker and his two dogs?

Either this or the one you wrote is fine to me. jp×g 02:34, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1 or ALT2 will be fine. Alright will pass the nomination. Will leave it to the promoter themselves to decide which of the ATL hooks are better.--ZKang123 (talk) 02:45, 3 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ALT2 to T:DYK/P6

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Stony Island (Michigan)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 18:35, 5 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Not sure why so many cites in the lead, see MOS:LEADCITE, as everything in the lead is normally mentioned in the article, reference it there instead.
- Y I've written an actual lead.
Put (USGS) after the expanded version.
- Y Done.
"in Wayne County.[5]" overlinked.
- Y Done.
"″W[1], and" ref after comma.
- Y Done.
Lead could use one or two more sentences, perhaps about its history.
- Y Done.
I would have the History section ahead of the Ecology section.
- Y Done.
"chinkapin oak, hackberry and cottonwood" links?
- ? I had those linked, but they got tagged with a {{dn}} because they weren't links to specific species. The source itself doesn't give this information (all it says is "There are approximately 20.2 ha (50 acres) of upland area which includes a mix of vegetation; massive chinkapin oak, hackberry and cottonwood are among the old growth"). Since I didn't want to do OR, I just removed the links.
"over 23 species" more than.
- Y Done.
"ed lake sturgeon,[6]:4lake whitefish,[6]:4rainbow smelt,[6]:8northern pike,[6]:10muskellunge,[6]:10carp,[6]:13minnow,[6]:17channel catfish,[6]:19bullhead[disambiguation needed],[6]:19white bass,[6]:22smallmouth bass,[6]:22yellow perch,[6]:25walleye,[6]:31and " spaces after each reference, and one of those is already tagged as [disambiguation needed].
- Y Done.
" by Potawatomi, who" context, who were they?
- Y Done.
"connecting it to Grosse Ile[2] as" overlinked.
- Y Done.
"activity died down" dredging activity?
- Y Done.
"1977[10] until the company ceased operations in 1987.[12]" put that [10] at the end, nasty placement now.
- Y Done.
Date formats in the references should be consistent.
- Y Done.
Ref 1 needs more information, publisher/website and publication/access date etc.
- ? I assume you're talking about the GNIS ref; I don't think I can do this, since the reference is provided through a template ({{Gnis}}). I can try to look at the documentation, but it doesn't seem like it will work.