Talk:The Wilbraham

The Wilbraham is currently an Art and architecture good article nominee. Nominated by Epicgenius (talk) at 00:31, 22 October 2023 (UTC)

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Short description: Historic building in Manhattan, New York

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A fact from The Wilbraham appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 June 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that although the Wilbraham (pictured) was built as a bachelor apartment, more women than men lived there by 1929?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Wilbraham.

Article name[edit]

See Talk:The Dakota#Requested move for a discussion about using "the" in the name of an article about an NYC building. --Enkyo2 (talk) 15:00, 18 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Bruxton (talk) 14:58, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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The Wilbraham

... that when the Wilbraham was completed, it was called "certainly the 'crack' apartment house of its kind in New York City"? Source: "A Bachelors' Home on Fifth Avenue". The Real Estate Record: Real estate record and builders' guide. Vol. 46, no. 1173. September 6, 1890. p. 305.
- ALT1: ... that the Wilbraham was built as one of "Manhattan's most romantic and most improbable apartment houses"? Source: Bender, Marylin (May 18, 1968). "Living Amid Office Buildings With a Legend of Lillian Russell". The New York Times.
- ALT2: ... that although the Wilbraham was built as a bachelor apartment, more women than men lived there by 1929? Source: The Wilbraham (PDF) (Report). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. June 8, 2004. p. 6.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Panot
- Comment: Additional hook suggestions would be appreciated.

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 15:46, 20 May 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/The Wilbraham; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

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 eligibility:

Cited: - can't find in alt0
Interesting:

QPQ: - Not done
Overall: @Epicgenius: Good article. QPQ needed. Though Earwig reports some copyvio. Though, they're from the LPC which I assume is public domain, though would like some confirmation. Also, i can't seem to find the hook for alt0 in the source though I may be dumb. Onegreatjoke (talk) 23:07, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Onegreatjoke: Thanks for the review. I haven't done a QPQ yet, but I do want to note that I accidentally put the wrong source in the hook. This is the correct source. Also, the Earwig matches are because I took a relatively long quote from the LPC report, as well as used several common phrases/proper names (e.g. "the Church of the Transfiguration", "at the northwest corner of", "in the late 19th century") which are false positives. Epicgenius (talk) 23:20, 20 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Onegreatjoke: I have now done a QPQ. Sorry for the long wait. Epicgenius (talk) 18:07, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Approve. Onegreatjoke (talk) 19:41, 29 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Naming[edit]

Why was the building called "Wilbraham"? Ericoides (talk) 05:02, 10 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:The Wilbraham/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Epicgenius (talk · contribs) 00:31, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Epicgenius Here are my comments! Hope they can be addressed. Arconning (talk) 06:30, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Arconning (talk · contribs) 16:48, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I will be reviewing this article, comments will probably be finished in the next 72 hours! Arconning (talk · contribs)

Prose and MoS[edit]

Is the The in mentions of the name of the building part of the official name? Tried comparing with The New York Times and it always capitalized the "the" but in this article it doesn't. Would like a reason! :)

Lead[edit]

New York City designated landmark, add hyphen between City and designated.
and eastern end of the facade., pluralize end.
seventh story is clad in ashlar, add comma at the end.
with bathroom but no kitchen;, a bathroom.
china and glass Davis Collamore & Co., add importer before Davis.
John J, Gibbons, change comma to a period/full stop per citation 51.

Site[edit]

No issues.

Architecture[edit]

No issues.

History[edit]

leased out to residents for year at a time., for a year at a time.
his wife Emily H. Moir., add comma after wife.
That June, Moir applied, specify which Moir, might get confused lol
The china and glass purveyors Davis Collamore & Co. leased the basement, ground-floor storefront, and second story when the Wilbraham opened., add commas after purveyors and Co..
John J, Gibbons, change comma to a period/full stop per citation 51.

Critical reception[edit]

Wikilink The Times.

Images[edit]

Images are appropriate and have the proper licenses.

Refs[edit]

References all seem reliable and are properly formatted.

Spotchecks[edit]

Earwig detector has no issues, just picked up some quotes. Pass.
Manual check done, no issues.

Misc.[edit]

Article has no ongoing edit war, broad coverage and information about the subject of the article, focused, and neutral about the topic (not really sure how would you be biased to a building, but the article shows no sign of that).

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()

3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()

Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

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