Talk:Sanahin Bridge

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Rjjiii talk 22:48, 26 April 2025 (UTC)

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Sanahin Bridge

• ... that the Sanahin Bridge (pictured) has stood intact for more than 800 years?

• Source: Harutyunyan, Varazdat (1992). Հայկական ճարտարապետության պատմություն [History of Armenian Architecture] (in Armenian). Yerevan: Luys. pp. 350–351. "չնայած նորոգումներին, համարյա անաղարտ վիճակում պահպանվել է մինչև մեր ժամանակները" = "despite the renovations, it has been preserved almost in pristine condition to this day."

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Padma Bandopadhyay

5x expanded by Yerevantsi (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 76 past nominations.

--Երևանցի ^talk 19:34, 24 March 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article has been 5 times expanded Munfarid1 (talk) 18:52, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

GA review

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Nominator: Yerevantsi (talk · contribs) 09:08, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: Bgsu98 (talk · contribs) 23:19, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Hello... I will do this review. It looks like an interesting bridge! Bgsu98 (Talk) 23:19, 2 October 2025 (UTC)

Comments (9/7/25)

User:Yerevantsi: Hello... I apologize for the delay in beginning this review. I have just finished reading the article; it is very interesting and well-written, as you will see from the small number of comments I have.

• Under Description, I recommend changing "It is built on the gorge's..." to "It is built at the gorge's..."

 Done----Երևանցի ^talk 19:18, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

• The second paragraph under Conservation: "...longest-surviving bridge in Armenia, which has remained..." should be altered to "...longest-surviving bridge in Armenia and has remained...". The "which" that you use refers to "Armenia" and not "bridge"; therefore the clause is confusing. This will also require moving source no. 31 to the end of the sentence since the comma has been removed.

Question:I changed it to "Armenia's longest-surviving bridge, which ...". Does that work?

• Yes, that works. Bgsu98 (Talk) 20:46, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

• Under Restorations, I recommend not beginning the sentence with It, but replacing it with "Sanahin Bridge".

 Done & Question: Does it need a definite article? ----Երևանցի ^talk 19:18, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

• That depends on whether Sanahin Bridge is a proper noun. I think it probably works better with the article. I'm thinking of, for example, "the Golden Gate Bridge", where the "the" is not part of the proper noun, but not using it sounds awkward. Bgsu98 (Talk) 20:46, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

• I also recommend spelling out "seven" versus the number 7, as numbers under 10 are preferred to be spelled out.

 Done----Երևանցի ^talk 19:18, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

• In the second paragraph, you need to remove the comma after "reinforced", and therefore relocate sources no. 28 and 43 to after the next comma.

 Done----Երևանցի ^talk 19:18, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

• In the third paragraph, you have two instances of the structure "in YEAR–YEAR". I recommend rephrasing both as "between YEAR and YEAR".
• Under Current state, recommend replacing vegetation with vegetative.

 Done----Երևանցի ^talk 19:18, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

• This may be a personal preference, so you should feel free to go with your preferred choice, but under Reception, in the second and third paragraphs, you frequently use the structure "The NOUN NAME", where I would simply use "NOUN NAME". For example, instead of "The Russian diplomat Wilhelm von Freygang", I would use "Russian diplomat Wilhelm von Freygang". Again, I don't think either is technically wrong.

 Done----Երևանցի ^talk 19:18, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

• Under In art, again, I would replace "It" with something else.

 Done----Երևանցի ^talk 19:18, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Please let me know if you have any questions. I will endeavor to complete the image and source reviews today as well! Bgsu98 (Talk) 10:37, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for taking the time to review it. One question that keep bothering me is should "The Stone Bridge" be capitalized as it is? ----Երևանցի ^talk 19:18, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

• User:Yerevantsi: It looks like capitalizing it is appropriate. However, that statement is unsourced unless it is covered later in the article. Bgsu98 (Talk) 20:50, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

There are two references within the note.----Երևանցի ^talk 06:53, 8 October 2025 (UTC)

Second question is, which you will likely raise after reviewing the sources, is the bridge's depiction on the the Alaverdi coat of arms/emblem. I've cited the Facebook profile picture of the municipality's official page (Armenian officials treat Facebook as an official website!). The source does not explicitly state that it's the bridge on the city emblem, but it is self-evident. The emblem can be seen in photos of the media backdrop banner from within the municipality and in videos of city council meetings ----Երևանցի ^talk 19:54, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

Image review (10/10/25)

• All images have appropriate licenses.
• The last two images (the artwork), the captions are not full sentences, so they do not need periods at the end.
• The large image is missing a caption. Additionally, the position and size of the large image has resulted in a big whitespace under the section subtitled Foundation. Recommend reducing the size of the image and positioning it to the left to eliminate this whitespace.

User:Yerevantsi: Please see my comments above. I will also do the source review today. Bgsu98 (Talk) 15:47, 10 October 2025 (UTC)

Source review (10/14?25)

I strongly recommend that for sources where the title is in a language other than English, you provide a translation. You have this for many sources, but not all of them. Bgsu98 (Talk) 13:42, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

This is a very well written article! Bgsu98 (Talk) 13:42, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

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