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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 Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 00:19, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

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Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel

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  • ... that when it opened, the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel in New York City was the second-longest vehicular tunnel in the world? Source: NY Times 1950. "...the tunnel, second in size only to the 11,254-foot-long crossing of the Mersey River linking Birkenhead and Liverpool, England." Other articles, like this one, make it clear that this refers to vehicular tunnels)
    • ALT1:... that when it opened, the Brooklyn–Battery Tunnel in New York City was the longest vehicular tunnel in the United States? Source: Same as above. The Queensway Tunnel in England is mentioned in the article as the longest in the world.

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 01:36, 23 March 2018 (UTC).

  • This is an interesting hook, and well done for expanding the article. Unfortunately, the 5x expansion started on 14 March, and the nomination was filed over a week later; taking it from this version on 19 March, the prose size is 8289 bytes, which means the prose now should be 41,445 bytes - it's only 39k. Sorry. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 18:39, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
  • @Ritchie333: I was counting from this version (the one you're counting), which is only 7,130 characters. That is the revision made on March 14; it stayed until March 18, and I used it as my starting point. This revision, which brought the article to 8,289 characters, was made on March 18. I nominated this article on March 23, well within the seven-day limit. epicgenius (talk) 00:46, 26 March 2018 (UTC)​
@Yoninah:, @The Rambling Man: - You'll know the answer for this. I think Epicgenius is right (and I'd hate to throw out a good DYK because of "teh rulez") but I want to make absolutely sure this qualifies for 5x expansion. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 08:45, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
Okay, looks like this has got consensus at the DYK talk. Right, off we go.... Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 14:55, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
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