Template:Did you know nominations/Parliament Hill

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 Desertarun (talk) 08:58, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

Aerial view of Parliament Hill

• ... that the site of Parliament Hill (pictured) was previously called Barrack Hill and had been intended for development as a major military base? Source: Ottawa Citizen "a strategic hill overlooking the Ottawa River was selected to be the site of the Parliament buildings", "For Bytown [now Ottawa] he called for a fortress stretching almost a kilometre from the Ottawa River ... covering what was then known as Barrack Hill and the site of a small military outpost." and "Parliament Hill, with its gently sloping banks to the south, was called a “glacis” positioned in front of the main trench".
  • ALT1:... that Parliament Hill (pictured) was originally designed for the Province of Canada and became inadequate for the bureaucracy of the Dominion of Canada, which was founded during its construction? Source: Public Works and Government Services Canada (archived) "[in 1866] the parliament of the United Province of Canada sat in the new building", "On the 1st of July 1867, the Dominion of Canada was born with a federal government in Ottawa ... The parliament buildings weren't even finished before they were suddenly made the seat of government for a much larger area", "[by 1871] The buildings ... were too small!" and "In 1876, the Library was finally completed, as well as the landscaped grounds."
  • ALT2:... that Parliament Hill (pictured) is undergoing an extensive renovation and rehabilitation project while continuing to serve as the seat of Canada's government? Source: Ottawa Citizen "Public Works and Government Services Canada is on time and on budget for its massive $3-billion, 20-year-project to rebuild the Parliament buildings" and "The West Block was shut down in 2011 ... When it re-opens in 2017, the House of Commons will meet there and the Senate will meet in the to-be-renovated Government Conference Centre across from the Chateau Laurier while Centre Block gets its multi-year refit."
  • ALT3:... that Canada's Parliament Hill (pictured) was the largest construction project undertaken in North America to that time? Sources: Radio Canada International "it was the largest construction project in all of North America". Public Works and Government Services Canada (archived) "Nothing this big had ever been done in North America and it was large even by European standards."
    • ALT3a:... that Canada's Parliament Hill (pictured) was the largest project undertaken in North America at the time of its construction?

• Reviewed: Waived for first nom for Aknell4 QPQ check
• Comment: Requesting for 1 July, Canada Day, or close to it... looking like "Canada week"

Improved to Good Article status by Aknell4 (talk) and Reidgreg (talk). Nominated by Aknell4 (talk) at 14:18, 9 June 2021 (UTC).

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - Substantial word-for-word (or even sentence-for-sentence) copying detected from a Wordpress philatelist source: here - needs writing the stuff in your own words. WP:BACKWARDSCOPY - false positive - plagiarism check cleared.

Overall: The article has been newly given a good article status (my congratulations), and is pretty long and very easily legible. Sourcing is great, the tone is neutral. However, the source check revealed copy-pasting - something should be done with it. Once this is changed, I have no objections to promote the nomination. As for the preferred hook, the original proposal is what suits me best; ALT3 could also be very fine (even better for me, personally) if you precise that the fact held true at the time the Parliament Hill complex was built. Per request of nominator, QPQ is waived. Szmenderowiecki (talk) 02:48, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for your review! As listed on the article's talk page, the Wordpress source copied the article, not the other way around. It's in a {{backwardscopy}} template on the talk page as per WP:BACKWARDSCOPY. --Aknell4 (talk · contribs) 02:56, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Oh, indeed, I haven't noticed the warning about the article on the talk page (I was only looking at the main article space). In that case, for me, the hook has successfully cleared all steps, and, as I said, the main option is the one I prefer most. You might want to wait for other comments. Szmenderowiecki (talk) 03:20, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

ALT0 is my preferred as well. Given that 1 July already has enough Canada-related hooks scheduled for then, I would request the closest date after then that's possible. --Aknell4 (talk · contribs) 13:08, 12 June 2021 (UTC)