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161: 454: 502: 297: 592: 519: 478: 578:, but that didn't exist until the 1980s and is certainly not a tourist attraction. The whole section was "sourced" to a book on a completely unrelated topic—a primer for schoolkids starting Film Studies 101—which as far as I can see doesn't mention the Thames, let alone the redevelopment of London Docklands, which was in any case an initiative of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.) 403: 260: 580:
Since I've only checked the small part with which I'm familiar (civil engineering on the Thames), I have to assume there's a reasonable possibility of a similar level of hoaxing going on in the rest of the article. (If anyone seriously believes punks wore "sta-press trousers, the Crombie overcoat,
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and filled with heavy industries, whaling abbatoirs and steam-train marshalling yards, and walking through it would have been as far from "a pleasurable experience" as it's possible to be; that "the southern side of the river became a leisure spot" is an extremely dubious claim even today, and the
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which remains one of the busiest ports in Europe to this day; the docks were and are downstream of central London, so their closure would have had no significant impact on the environment within the city—what actually led to the clean-up of the Thames was the decline of heavy industry in the 1980s
570:(opened 1999), none of which have any significance to the year 1960; the Canary Islands are off the coast of western Africa and decidedly not in the Thames, and there's no island of any kind in the Thames within the then-current boundaries of London and other than a couple of tiny specks like 505:
Concerns about verifiability (for example, "After the London docks..." etc is not supported by the given ref) and neutrality ("made the rest of the world envy the booming culture of London with romance and love taking the front seat"?). Article also needs a thorough copy-editing.
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and the pork-pie hat", something is seriously wrong somewhere.) This needs to be checked line-by-line before it gets anywhere near the main page, since major errors in a topic as widely covered as 1960s London are inexcusable. â€“ 
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are nowhere near each other and neither had or have any particular cultural significance; Bermondsey (the area around Butler's Wharf) in the 1960s was the crime-ridden heartland of the
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was a fashionable shopping area is not referenced in the article and (2) that is became a "household name of youth fashion around the world" is not in the article.
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in the extreme west there are still no islands in even the post-1965 expanded boundaries—the only place with a remotely similar name on the Thames is
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References have been fixed. The words "household" and "world" have been deleted in the lead and the following
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only three things on the south side of the river which could conceivably be described as such are the
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hook is appropriately referenced. I have struck out the original hook and removed the unwanted image.
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ref is needed after "thrived as a place of pop culture and boutique culture came into vogue..."
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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below.
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The last sentence in the last paragraph of the "Swinging London" section is also unsourced.--
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References fixed as per above observations. Yes, original picture would be fine.--
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
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closed in 1969 not 1960, and in any event were only a tiny part of the
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hook and recent changes in the article, notably the source citations.
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was a centre for the worldwide youth culture, exemplified by the "
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Withdrawn from consideration by one of the article creators
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I am withdrawing this nom from further consideration. --
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Can't we have the original picture? It is much better.
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a household name of youth fashion around the world?
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The trendy youth of London's Carnaby Street in 1969
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