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Comment: Weston House is new; George Weston (lawyer) is newly expanded; I've included Cecil Wood in the hook as a wikilink and intend to expand that article, too (might take two or three days). The word "former" in ALT0 is explained in the caption through the note "since demolished"; not sure if this hook works like this without the caption.
Schwede66 Hi! The article is long enough, neutral, well-cited, and with [
no copyvio] detected, QPQ done. Nomination is on time. (The article was created on January 26th). And the picture is also good. The hook is formatted, of good length, and cited in the article, but not particularly interesting. It would be better if we could improve it. Thanks
RV (
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12:41, 28 January 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Schwede66: I'm also wondering if it would be better for Weston House to have a separate hook instead. Looking through the article I thought it was more interesting that it was damaged from multiple earthquakes, or that it was demolished despite being heritage-registered, than it being designed for a lawyer. I also took a look at Weston's article to see if there was any info that could be used for a solo hook but I'm coming up empty so far.
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11:17, 30 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Ok, I've expanded the architect sufficiently that it meets the five times expansion rule, but that article is nowhere near finished yet. There's a whole PhD thesis to work through; a brilliant source. I've provided ALT1 that references the earthquakes and the demolition as suggested; this allowed me to simplify the photo caption. Further hook suggestions are most welcome. QPQ for the architect is to follow.
I suggest you proceed slowly as I'll have significant content to add to the architect. Would be good to have that done before it hits the mainpage. Schwede6602:12, 4 February 2022 (UTC)reply
RV, this is pretty slow moving at my end. I'm only at 1915 and so there's still 30 years of career to cover. If you want to sign off on it, please say so. At that point, I'll turn the gallery into a table and it'll be "good enough", but I'll keep working on it as I have over the last few weeks. The slow speed is caused by me tidying up all the related articles as I go, or by creating Wikidata entries for the people who don't have bios, and doing work on the buildings that he designed. Schwede6608:57, 22 February 2022 (UTC)reply
A fact from Weston House appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 March 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject New Zealand, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
New Zealand and
New Zealand-related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New ZealandWikipedia:WikiProject New ZealandTemplate:WikiProject New ZealandNew Zealand articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Architecture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of
Architecture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join
the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ArchitectureWikipedia:WikiProject ArchitectureTemplate:WikiProject ArchitectureArchitecture articles
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.
Comment: Weston House is new; George Weston (lawyer) is newly expanded; I've included Cecil Wood in the hook as a wikilink and intend to expand that article, too (might take two or three days). The word "former" in ALT0 is explained in the caption through the note "since demolished"; not sure if this hook works like this without the caption.
Schwede66 Hi! The article is long enough, neutral, well-cited, and with [
no copyvio] detected, QPQ done. Nomination is on time. (The article was created on January 26th). And the picture is also good. The hook is formatted, of good length, and cited in the article, but not particularly interesting. It would be better if we could improve it. Thanks
RV (
talk)
12:41, 28 January 2022 (UTC)reply
@
Schwede66: I'm also wondering if it would be better for Weston House to have a separate hook instead. Looking through the article I thought it was more interesting that it was damaged from multiple earthquakes, or that it was demolished despite being heritage-registered, than it being designed for a lawyer. I also took a look at Weston's article to see if there was any info that could be used for a solo hook but I'm coming up empty so far.
Narutolovehinata5 (
talk ·
contributions)
11:17, 30 January 2022 (UTC)reply
Ok, I've expanded the architect sufficiently that it meets the five times expansion rule, but that article is nowhere near finished yet. There's a whole PhD thesis to work through; a brilliant source. I've provided ALT1 that references the earthquakes and the demolition as suggested; this allowed me to simplify the photo caption. Further hook suggestions are most welcome. QPQ for the architect is to follow.
I suggest you proceed slowly as I'll have significant content to add to the architect. Would be good to have that done before it hits the mainpage. Schwede6602:12, 4 February 2022 (UTC)reply
RV, this is pretty slow moving at my end. I'm only at 1915 and so there's still 30 years of career to cover. If you want to sign off on it, please say so. At that point, I'll turn the gallery into a table and it'll be "good enough", but I'll keep working on it as I have over the last few weeks. The slow speed is caused by me tidying up all the related articles as I go, or by creating Wikidata entries for the people who don't have bios, and doing work on the buildings that he designed. Schwede6608:57, 22 February 2022 (UTC)reply