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== Confusion of years around closure == |
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So the article is saying that the Park closed in '''1982''' because of insurance rates rising in '''1986'''? Somebody please explain. [[Special:Contributions/73.174.36.17|73.174.36.17]] ([[User talk:73.174.36.17|talk]]) 07:34, 5 July 2016 (UTC) |
So the article is saying that the Park closed in '''1982''' because of insurance rates rising in '''1986'''? Somebody please explain. [[Special:Contributions/73.174.36.17|73.174.36.17]] ([[User talk:73.174.36.17|talk]]) 07:34, 5 July 2016 (UTC) |
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The sentence about the Noah's Ark attraction raises more questions than it answers. Was it a ride, a menagerie (live animals), a walk through display (images or sculptures of animals), etc.?--[[User:Scottandrewhutchins|Scottandrewhutchins]] ([[User talk:Scottandrewhutchins|talk]]) 18:13, 8 October 2019 (UTC) |
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Confusion of years around closure
[edit]So the article is saying that the Park closed in 1982 because of insurance rates rising in 1986? Somebody please explain. 73.174.36.17 (talk) 07:34, 5 July 2016 (UTC)
Noah's Ark
[edit]The sentence about the Noah's Ark attraction raises more questions than it answers. Was it a ride, a menagerie (live animals), a walk through display (images or sculptures of animals), etc.?--Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 18:13, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
- 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 97198 (talk) 09:29, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
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- ... that New York City's Rockaways' Playland amusement park was created by LaMarcus Adna Thompson because of the assassination of William McKinley? Source: NY Daily News 1982
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that New York City's Rockaways' Playland amusement park was closed because of excessively high insurance premiums?Source: NY Times 1987 - ALT1a:... that New York City's Rockaways' Playland amusement park was closed because of an eightfold increase in insurance premiums?
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5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 18:23, 12 September 2019 (UTC).
This article is a fivefold expansion and is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline and either hook could be used. I have substituted ALT1a because you can't be sure that the insurance premiums were excessive, and maybe they were unrealistically low previously. The article is neutral and I detected no copyright or plagiarism issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:47, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
