Talk:West Street Foundry

A fact from West Street Foundry appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 July 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Brooklyn's West Street Foundry, owned by Wilson Small, built the engine for Error: {{Ship}} missing prefix (help) (pictured), which on debut in 1853 was the largest and fastest steamboat in Maine coastal service?

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Did you know nomination

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) 19:59, 23 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The steamboat Daniel Webster

... that Brooklyn's West Street Foundry, owned by Wilson Small, built the engine for Daniel Webster (pictured), which on debut in 1853 was the largest and fastest steamboat in Maine coastal service?
- Reviewed: Statue of James Cook, Hyde Park • Celebrity Studies • Motion Pictures in Education

Created by Gatoclass (talk). Self-nominated at 12:05, 30 June 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Some assistance in verifying the hook for the reviewer:

that the steamer was the largest and fastest on the Maine coast - sourced at the end of the Construction and design section in the Daniel Webster article.
that the engine was built by the West Street Foundry - same section as above, third paragraph.
that Wilson Small owned the foundry - either the Wilson Small or Foundry articles, should be easy to find.

- I think that should about cover it. Thanks, Gatoclass (talk) 09:31, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

All articles:

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice work on all three articles. I was able to verify Small's ownership in this source, while the rest of the info is sourced to this news article. Epicgenius (talk) 18:11, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]