Talk:Graybar Building

Graybar Building has been listed as one of the Art and architecture good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. Review: March 31, 2020. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Graybar Building appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 December 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that sculptures of rats outside the Graybar Building, near Grand Central Terminal, were included to signify New York City's role as a "great transportation centre"? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2019/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Graybar Building.

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

Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 02:30, 30 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

1. Prose  Pass

2. Verifiability  Pass

3. Depth of Coverage  Pass

4. Neutral  Pass

5. Stable  Pass

6. Illustrations  Pass

7. Miscellaneous  Pass

1.

• "420-430 Lexington Avenue"- Use an endash
  •  Done
• Wikilink Lexington Avenue in the site section
  •  Done
• Should "the project became the Graybar Building." be "the project became known as the Graybar Building"?
  •  Done
• In the portals section, you state that there were three entrance portals, but that only two of them were actually used as entrances. Either this is a contradiction, or I'm misunderstanding something.
  • Yes, there were three entrance portals, one of which was never opened to the public. epicgenius (talk) 00:57, 31 March 2020 (UTC)Reply
• Graybar is a duplicate link
  •  Done
• " A writer for The New Yorker stated in November 1927 that the building "probably the largest something, or the highest something, or the most capacious something, in the world – but we didn’t know what"." - Ungrammatical, a change needs to occur (likely at the juncture where the direct quote starts).
  •  Done "The building was..." epicgenius (talk) 00:57, 31 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

2.

• Stuff in infobox not cited in the article: Art Deco, address, engineer, NYCL reference no.
  •  Done
• Is "Bookworm History" reliable? It looks a touch blog-ish
  •  Done Removed it.
• City Room ref gives me a 503 error
  • That is weird. It works fine for me. Though sometimes this site has periodic outages. epicgenius (talk) 00:57, 31 March 2020 (UTC)Reply
• The Grand Central Directory (ref 58) is a 404 deadlink
  •  Done
• The New Yorker "Rats" ref should have a subscription required parameter
  •  Done

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• Trumbull is redlinked down in the Portals section, but he's first mentioned up in the Planning and Construction section. If the redlinks are kept, they should be at the first mention
  •  Done

That's it, @Epicgenius:. Hog Farm (talk) 00:16, 31 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

• @Hog Farm: Thanks for the review. I have fixed all of these. epicgenius (talk) 00:57, 31 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

Passing. Hog Farm (talk) 01:33, 31 March 2020 (UTC)Reply