Talk:Leverington Cemetery

A fact from Leverington Cemetery appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 February 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Leverington Cemetery has the most orbs and apparitions in Philadelphia?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Bruxton (talk) 01:20, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Leverington Cemetery has the most orbs and apparitions in Philadelphia? Source: Ghost hunters flock to the Leverington Cemetery, one of the most actively documented locations for orbs and apparitions in Philadelphia.
- ALT1: ... that Leverington Cemetery was saved in 1947 from Wannamaker's department store? Source: Mautz’s familial connections date back to around 1947 when, with the cemetery in major disrepair and all but abandoned, her grandfather, Richard Lee Entwhistle, Jr., intervened to save it from development. Wanamaker’s, the parent company of the downtown department store, were ready to buy the cemetery and relocate the graves to make way for a shopping center.
- ALT2: ... that 17 American Revolutionary soldiers buried in Leverington Cemetery were shot by British troops who set the barn they were hiding in on fire? Source: The cemetery contains the graves of 17 soldiers from Virginia killed by British troops in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War. The soldiers were trapped inside a barn set ablaze by British troops and shot as they tried to escape.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Générosité d'Alexandre

Created by Dwkaminski (talk). Self-nominated at 21:04, 23 January 2023 (UTC).[reply]

The article is new, posted within seven days and is of suitable length and neutral. It conforms to rules without any copy right violation issues. All the three hooks are interesting, shorter than 200 charachters duly cited but I prefer the main one. Nvvchar. 04:11, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Nvvchar: I completed my QPQ - see above. Can you complete your review of the DYK submission? Thanks! Dwkaminski (talk) 15:15, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In view of above article is ready to go.

Nvvchar. 01:14, 25 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Feedback from New Page Review process[edit]

I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Thanks for creating this article! Hopefully you will write more articles! Have a good day!

✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 00:40, 24 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]