:Template:Did you know nominations/Illinois Memorial and Illinois Monument

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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 Desertarun (talk) 12:29, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

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... that the Illinois Memorial and Illinois Monument honor soldiers from the state who fought in the siege of Vicksburg and the battle of Kennesaw Mountain, respectively? Source: [https://www.nps.gov/places/the-illinois-monument.htm] and [https://www.nps.gov/vick/learn/historyculture/illinois-memorial.htm]
ALT1:... that in the early 1900s, the state of Illinois erected both the Illinois Memorial and the Illinois Monument on American Civil War battlefields in the southern United States? Source: [https://www.nps.gov/places/the-illinois-monument.htm] and [https://www.nps.gov/vick/learn/historyculture/illinois-memorial.htm]

:* Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/West Side Rowing Club and Template:Did you know nominations/Marina South Pier MRT station

:* Comment: Illinois Monument page created May 17, Illinois Memorial page created May 18.

Created by JJonahJackalope (talk). Self-nominated at 14:33, 18 May 2021 (UTC).

Both articles:

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|comments = The copyright violation matches in the Illinois Monument article are almost entirely quotes or proper names, and those in the Illinois Memorial article are proper names or common phrases. ALT1 seems better to me compared with ALT0.

|sign = Epicgenius (talk) 13:55, 20 May 2021 (UTC)

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