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Did you know... that Sheep Meadow in New York City's
Central Park has been used as a sheep pasture, for festivals and concerts, and as a helicopter landing site?
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The fictional decades old anti hero, Marvel Comic's Frank Castle the Punisher, lost his family in a mobster shootout in Sheep Meadow. This should be noted.
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First two sentences of "Construction" section could be reversed to make more logical flow.
"two feet" you've converted everything so far...
Could link New Jersey.
"disruptive boulders" what?
"sixteen feet" see above.
"the most costly construction" can you quantify that and inflate to 2018 $ please?
" were loath to" in BritEng that would be "loathe"...
"Southdown" is piped to a redirect.
"Calvert Vaux.[13][15][14]" order.
"or "the Green".[18][13] " ditto.
" meadow's perimeter.[18][13] " thrice.
"certain time periods" could be "certain times"?
"The park's patronage increasingly came to include the middle and working class. Strict regulations, such as those against public gatherings, were gradually eased." consider merging, this is starting to read a little clunky.
"the high number of tennis permits" not sure you need "high" and it reads clunky as is for me.
"to the site of the sheepfold" probably would work with just "there".
"successful, however.[26]" not sure the point in "however".
"Sheep Meadow.[28][29]:984[30][3]:106–109" order.
Link Great Depression.
"Conservancy.[14][34][28] " order.
"resodding" do we all know what that means?
"the city began renovating the meadow and installing a sprinkler system in September 1979." why ing ing, why not "renovated, installed"?
"Once the lawn was reopened, team sports were banned from Sheep Meadow " I don't think another repeat of Sheep Meadow is needed here?
"The project was ... The project..." repetitive.
"Mineral Springs" section, should that be "Mineral Springs Pavilion"? If not, why is it capitalised?
"Seen in 2019" caption is not particularly informative, especially given the lack of whatever it is I'm supposed to be seeing!
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ALT1:... that Sheep Meadow in New York City's
Central Park has been used as a sheep pasture, for festivals and concerts, and as a helicopter landing site? Source: NYC Parks: Sheep Meadow; sources for helicopter landings in
Sheep Meadow#Emergency and other uses
ALT2:... that there are a sheep meadow and a dairy adjacent to each other in New York City's
Central Park? Source:
Central Park map Note: ALT2 can only be used if The Dairy is also approved.
The article is newly promoted to GA, neutral, and well referenced. Because of the huge number of sources I ran the article through Earwig's copyvio detector; it showed a close match to a source from the NY Daily News, meaning part of the "Use in media" section should be reworded (see the comparison
here). I much prefer ALT1, which I think is more interesting to a broad audience, and the hook facts are cited. Also waiting on a QPQ (pinging
Epicgenius).
97198 (
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11:08, 13 September 2019 (UTC)reply
@
Epicgenius: Do you feel strongly about combining the two articles into one hook? In my opinion the individual hooks are certainly interesting enough to stand on their own, but if you would prefer to combine them that's up to you. I'll hold off on giving this one the tick until we've decided, so it doesn't get accidentally promoted in the meantime.
97198 (
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07:23, 15 September 2019 (UTC)reply
@
97198: I don't really have an opinion one way or the other. I just threw out ALT2 as a suggestion, since it's interesting that Central Park had these two features (to me at least). If you think these would be better as two separate hooks, that's also fine.
epicgenius (
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14:09, 15 September 2019 (UTC)reply
Approving the original hook and ALT1. If somebody else wants to review the Dairy nomination and likes the combined hook, I'm also happy with ALT2.
97198 (
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01:24, 17 September 2019 (UTC)reply
Sheep Meadow premier of Pocahontas
Your article references the Disney premier of the movie Pocahontas in Sheep Meadow. This is an error. The premier was indeed in Central Park, but the location was The Great Lawn, not Sheep Meadow.