The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:01, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
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Improved to Good Article status by Taketa (talk). Nominated by Oceanh (talk) at 23:17, 21 July 2014 (UTC).
1. The image has a 3.0 license, so that's good enough, no?
2. I don't have much of a problem with the wording in the hook, or with the date. We have, as you note, two sources, with slightly different dates--in this case (such cases), 25 years difference doesn't bother me so much, and I have no doubt that "early 17th century" is written in that way to play it safe. Ref. 2, from De Hollandsche Molen, does not mention a 1605 rebuild, but note that ref. 1 does list the 1625 date--albeit with two question marks.
3. I find these sources to be good enough for windmills; esp. De Hollandsche Molen has a decent reputation and is comprehensive (but the real expert is @Mjroots:!) However, in this case I am bothered by the terse phrasing: it states that the mill was already a banmolen in 1550--but since it does not mention that the earlier watermill had been replaced by the current mill's predecessor, it has a watermill as a banmolen, which strikes me as, to put it mildly, terrifically odd. But the account in our article leans more on the other reference; by the way, I found no all-too close paraphrasing/translating at all.
4. It's not my article. If it were, I'd have gotten those two books. If I had reviewed this for GA, I would have asked for it. (I'm about to go look at that review.) I am very hesitant about promoting articles that have only web sites for references, esp. if print publications are available. For DYK I think it's decent enough.
5. Oh, the hook. I think that in this area "in continuous use" probably means "not used as a mustard mill in the meantime" or something like that, which is why I didn't have a problem with it, but I see where you're coming from. Perhaps Mjroots has an opinion here as well--they're a GA and DYK veteran as well, and apparently someone made them admin. I'll gladly defer to their opinion. Thanks BMS, Drmies (talk) 02:32, 25 July 2014 (UTC)