Template:Did you know nominations/Bersey Electric Cab

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 14:37, 9 March 2025 (UTC)

Bersey Electric Cab

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Bersey Electric Cab

• ... that the crash of a Bersey Electric Cab (pictured) in London in 1897 led to the first ever charge of drink driving?

• Source: "George Smith, a 25-year-old taxi driver, was the first person to be charged with drink-driving. He was fined 20 shillings at Marlborough Street Police Court in London on 10 September 1897. Smith had been arrested by Police Constable Russell after crashing his electric cab into the front of 165 New Bond Street." from: "Who was the first person to be charged for drink-driving? -". National Motor Museum. Retrieved 17 February 2025.. There's a couple of other sources for the same in the article also.

• ALT1: ... that the Bersey Electric Cab (pictured) became the first self-propelled taxi to operate in London in 1897? Source: "With a top speed of 9-12 mph, Walter Bersey’s taxis were the first self-propelled vehicles for hire on London’s roads." from: Hurley, Selina (9 July 2012). "The Surprisingly Old Story Of London's First Ever Electric Taxi". Science Museum Blog. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Edward W. Gantt
• Comment: Previously a DYK after its creation but that was more than five years ago, recently promoted to GA

Improved to Good Article status by Dumelow (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 917 past nominations.

Dumelow (talk) 11:33, 17 February 2025 (UTC).

• Will review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 18:14, 18 February 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: Newly promoted GA. Article looks good, nice work. I think I like ALT0 better. Also, I note that the National Museum Motor source appears to be a deadlink to me? I can verify the hook through other sources listed, but you might want to check the Motor source again. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:52, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the review BeanieFan11, I have added a link to the Internet Archive version to the ref to fix the deadlink - Dumelow (talk) 07:35, 19 February 2025 (UTC)