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A fact from Arthur O. Austin appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 December 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Arthur O. Austin built the most powerful outdoor high-voltage laboratory in the world?
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... that Arthur O. Austin built the most powerful outdoor high-voltage laboratory in the world? Source:
Popular Mechanics "Mr. Austin is chief engineer of the Ohio Insulator Company and consulting engineer for the Ohio Brass Company. He is using the most powerful outdoor high-voltage laboratory in the world at Barberton, Ohio, for the experiments."
Created by
RoySmith (
talk). Self-nominated at 00:35, 21 November 2022 (UTC).reply
Hi
RoySmith, review follows: article moved to mainspace 20 November and exceeds minimum length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; I didn't pick up on any overly close paraphrasing from the sources; hook is interesting, mentioned in the article and checks out to sources cited (that he built the lab is elsewhere in the article; a QPQ has been carried out. Can't see any issues here -
Dumelow (
talk) 11:04, 21 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Thank you to
DigitalIceAge for finding a good image. @
Dumelow: Adding this as a possible alternative hook --
RoySmith(talk) 15:33, 22 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Austin in 1933
ALT1: ... that Arthur O. Austin (pictured) built the most powerful outdoor high-voltage laboratory in the world?
Thanks
RoySmith, image looks OK to me. Not an expert on the ins and outs of the copyright law in this instance but the licensing looks to be correct -
Dumelow (
talk) 15:44, 22 November 2022 (UTC)reply
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Starting review. This is my first ever GAN review, so apologies if I'm a bit slow or make any mistakes with procedure. -
Kj cheetham (
talk) 14:42, 5 August 2023 (UTC)reply
GA review (see
here for what the criteria are, and
here for what they are not)
As an initial read, article seems to be in good condition. I’ve already made a couple of minor edits myself, though not to the prose.
References seem reliable and there are sufficient inline citations. I've spot-checked various facts quotes, and all okay, except couldn't see a mention of Anna–Dean Farm in
[1]. Also in "Personal life", the sentence “Austin was born on December 28, 1879, in Stockton, California, to Oswin and Mary Hamman Austin” seems to be mostly taken from
[2], so may benefit rewording it a bit. The article says "As of 2022 it is once again an independent company known as Austin Insulators Inc.", but is this confirmed? As
https://www.austin-insulators.com/radio/history.html appears to have not bee updated since 2002, and may have since closed/been bought out/etc.
All fine. Images all have captions, are relavent, and are public domain or CC BY 2.0.
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
Additional optional comments:
In the “High-voltage laboratory” section: Should “iron core” be hyphenated?
Is it clear enough what “over-exciting” means?
Discussion
RoySmith, please see above my initial set of feedback. It's only really criteria 2 to respond to. Good work overall. I do want to also go through it again myself another day before completing the review. -
Kj cheetham (
talk) 15:33, 5 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Regarding the Anna-Dean Farm, it's on page 3, "In 1926, Austin purchased several hundred acres of land in then Coventry Township, a portion of the expansive Anna Dean Farm established by Barberton town founder Ohio C. Barber." There's also a photo caption, "A. O. Austin’s outdoor laboratory at the Anna Dean Farm in Barberton."
As for “Austin was born on December 28, 1879, in Stockton, California, to Oswin and Mary Hamman Austin”, this seems like one of those things that there's just not many ways to say without being awkward. "On December 29, 1879, Mary Hamman Austin gave her husband, Oswin, a baby son. The blessed event occurred in Stockton, California". Nahhhh.
Regarding if Austin Insulators Inc is still in business, Bloomberg has
a current entry for them. And MacRAE's Bluebook (who I'll admit I've never heard of, but appears to be a directory of industrial supply companies) has what appears to be
a current entry for them. And just for fun,
Google Maps shows them right next door to a Tim Hortons :-) Granted, none of those are
WP:RS, but I don't see any reason to think they're not still around just because their low-budget website hasn't been updated in a bunch of years.
Hyphenating iron core? No clue, I've asked at
WT:GOCE.
Over excitation: I've added a link that I hope will explain the term.
RoySmith(talk) 00:05, 6 August 2023 (UTC)reply
RoySmith Regarding the farm, it seems what's currently ref 1 does indeed say that, but ref 2 at the end of that sentance in the article doesn't. So I've just taken the liberty of fixing that myself. I agree with you regarding the other points, and looking over things again I don't have anything further to add, so I feel this is a pass. -
Kj cheetham (
talk) 16:10, 6 August 2023 (UTC)reply
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A fact from Arthur O. Austin appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 December 2022 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Arthur O. Austin built the most powerful outdoor high-voltage laboratory in the world?
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.
... that Arthur O. Austin built the most powerful outdoor high-voltage laboratory in the world? Source:
Popular Mechanics "Mr. Austin is chief engineer of the Ohio Insulator Company and consulting engineer for the Ohio Brass Company. He is using the most powerful outdoor high-voltage laboratory in the world at Barberton, Ohio, for the experiments."
Created by
RoySmith (
talk). Self-nominated at 00:35, 21 November 2022 (UTC).reply
Hi
RoySmith, review follows: article moved to mainspace 20 November and exceeds minimum length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; I didn't pick up on any overly close paraphrasing from the sources; hook is interesting, mentioned in the article and checks out to sources cited (that he built the lab is elsewhere in the article; a QPQ has been carried out. Can't see any issues here -
Dumelow (
talk) 11:04, 21 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Thank you to
DigitalIceAge for finding a good image. @
Dumelow: Adding this as a possible alternative hook --
RoySmith(talk) 15:33, 22 November 2022 (UTC)reply
Austin in 1933
ALT1: ... that Arthur O. Austin (pictured) built the most powerful outdoor high-voltage laboratory in the world?
Thanks
RoySmith, image looks OK to me. Not an expert on the ins and outs of the copyright law in this instance but the licensing looks to be correct -
Dumelow (
talk) 15:44, 22 November 2022 (UTC)reply
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Starting review. This is my first ever GAN review, so apologies if I'm a bit slow or make any mistakes with procedure. -
Kj cheetham (
talk) 14:42, 5 August 2023 (UTC)reply
GA review (see
here for what the criteria are, and
here for what they are not)
As an initial read, article seems to be in good condition. I’ve already made a couple of minor edits myself, though not to the prose.
References seem reliable and there are sufficient inline citations. I've spot-checked various facts quotes, and all okay, except couldn't see a mention of Anna–Dean Farm in
[1]. Also in "Personal life", the sentence “Austin was born on December 28, 1879, in Stockton, California, to Oswin and Mary Hamman Austin” seems to be mostly taken from
[2], so may benefit rewording it a bit. The article says "As of 2022 it is once again an independent company known as Austin Insulators Inc.", but is this confirmed? As
https://www.austin-insulators.com/radio/history.html appears to have not bee updated since 2002, and may have since closed/been bought out/etc.
All fine. Images all have captions, are relavent, and are public domain or CC BY 2.0.
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
Additional optional comments:
In the “High-voltage laboratory” section: Should “iron core” be hyphenated?
Is it clear enough what “over-exciting” means?
Discussion
RoySmith, please see above my initial set of feedback. It's only really criteria 2 to respond to. Good work overall. I do want to also go through it again myself another day before completing the review. -
Kj cheetham (
talk) 15:33, 5 August 2023 (UTC)reply
Regarding the Anna-Dean Farm, it's on page 3, "In 1926, Austin purchased several hundred acres of land in then Coventry Township, a portion of the expansive Anna Dean Farm established by Barberton town founder Ohio C. Barber." There's also a photo caption, "A. O. Austin’s outdoor laboratory at the Anna Dean Farm in Barberton."
As for “Austin was born on December 28, 1879, in Stockton, California, to Oswin and Mary Hamman Austin”, this seems like one of those things that there's just not many ways to say without being awkward. "On December 29, 1879, Mary Hamman Austin gave her husband, Oswin, a baby son. The blessed event occurred in Stockton, California". Nahhhh.
Regarding if Austin Insulators Inc is still in business, Bloomberg has
a current entry for them. And MacRAE's Bluebook (who I'll admit I've never heard of, but appears to be a directory of industrial supply companies) has what appears to be
a current entry for them. And just for fun,
Google Maps shows them right next door to a Tim Hortons :-) Granted, none of those are
WP:RS, but I don't see any reason to think they're not still around just because their low-budget website hasn't been updated in a bunch of years.
Hyphenating iron core? No clue, I've asked at
WT:GOCE.
Over excitation: I've added a link that I hope will explain the term.
RoySmith(talk) 00:05, 6 August 2023 (UTC)reply
RoySmith Regarding the farm, it seems what's currently ref 1 does indeed say that, but ref 2 at the end of that sentance in the article doesn't. So I've just taken the liberty of fixing that myself. I agree with you regarding the other points, and looking over things again I don't have anything further to add, so I feel this is a pass. -
Kj cheetham (
talk) 16:10, 6 August 2023 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.