- 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 Evrik (talk) 16:38, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
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Job Abbott
- ... that Job Abbott designed the first through cantilever bridge in North America? Source: "Designed by Job Abbott, chief engineer and president of Dominion Bridge, it was noteworthy also as the first through cantilever bridge in North America" [1]
5x expanded by Z1720 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:47, 12 May 2022 (UTC).
: The article expansion looks all right (began on May 12, 2022). The article is long enough (3,074 characters). Sources look all right. Well written. The hook is present in the article and sourced. A QPQ (pretty old one) has been done and not used elsewhere. Copyvio [2] looks all right. Good to go! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 11:03, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
- Z1720 Kavyansh.Singh The hook appears to be wrong. This source and others say that Joseph Davenport created the first cantilever bridge in North America. - "Joseph Davenport, credited with being the builder of the first cantilever bridge, founded the company in 1869 as the Massillon Iron Bridge Company. I think the key word here is "through" - whatever that means. SL93 (talk) 18:29, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
@Evrik: I unpromoted the hook per my above statement. SL93 (talk) 14:24, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
- I AGFed on the source; Z1720 can advise further. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 15:09, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
- Kavyansh.Singh A search for "through cantilever bridge" reveals that it is obviously just a type of cantilever bridge such as this old source. SL93 (talk) 15:17, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
- Please see Through arch bridge which also discusses cantilever bridges. Adding "through" to the hook would solve the issue. SL93 (talk) 15:18, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
