Talk:Duck Island Cottage

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. Track your hook after promotion. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Zzz plant (talk) 02:01, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that the bird keeper of Duck Island Cottage was also tasked with maintaining bomb disposal equipment?

• Source: Jensen, Richard Bach (2014). The battle against anarchist terrorism : an international history, 1878-1934. Cambridge University Press. pp. 128–129. ISBN 978-1-107-03405-1.

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Created by RanulfLampard (talk) and AntientNestor (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

RanulfLampard (talk) 17:56, 9 July 2026 (UTC).

• Reviewing ...
• Article is long enough and new enough
• No copyright problems found by Earwig
• Sources all look to be WP:RS and properly cited in-line.
• The use of the future tense ("William III would order the construction ...") is odd. See WP:WOULD for an essay on this. It's not a violation of the DYK critera, so it won't affect this nomination, but still something that should be addressed at some point.
• Nominator is QPQ exempt.
• Immage appears to be appropriately licensed.
• The big problem is the hook. I see that Mandarax already commented on the length and you did bring it down to just barely squeak by the 200-character upper limit, but the goal of DYK is short catchy hooks. You should be aiming for something about half the length of what you have now. You want to concentrate on one particularly interesting fact, not try to fit as much in as you can while staying within the compulsory upper limit. RoySmith (talk) 12:52, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Thank you for your review. I have made the recommended modifications to the article and hook. RanulfLampard (talk) 13:19, 20 July 2026 (UTC)

Hook approved. For future reference, the preferred way to update a hook is to create one or more alternates, as was done in Template:Did you know nominations/Complete Bible in Inuktitut. That makes it easier to keep track of changes as a nomination progresses. This is good to go, just something to keep in mind for your next one. RoySmith (talk) 13:43, 20 July 2026 (UTC)