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A fact from Cote Baptist Church appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 July 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Why is the fact that the original internal fittings of this modern building still exist considered an item of special, remarkable interest on Wikipedia? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.64.175.140 (talk) 13:11, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure that the fact is "an item of special, remarkable interest", (does it have to fall into these categories for DYK?), but IMO it's a bit unusual for all the fittings in a church or chapel to date from a single year, and for them not to have been altered, restored or added to in 140 years. IME alteration and addition is the norm in most churches. So, maybe not special or remarkable, but somewhat unusual.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 16:15, 4 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
May I humbly suggest that every word in the hook and the message above be read. After all the point of DYK is for it to be succinct. It does not say that the fittings are old — of course there are older fittings in many churches (it's a bit silly to suggest that the hook is saying they are unusual because they are old). What it does say is that all the fittings date from a single year, and implies that there have been no later additions, nor any modifications to them since 1869. It's that absence of change for 140 years that is unusual, not that they are old, which they are not (relatively).--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 09:09, 5 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
