Talk:1982 World's Fair/GA1

GA review

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Reviewer: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 03:40, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

It's coming...and it's coming soon!

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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@AppalachianCentrist: I am putting this on a 7-day hold, though one item may require more time. To-do: Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 06:42, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

• Copy changes
• Replace dead links and improve syntax of references
• Apply for newspapers.com access for yourself and use it to improve the page with additional citations from Tennessee newspapers (I don't mind assisting a bit on this depending on application slowness)
• Archive references with IABot
• Add alt tags to images
• Remove or otherwise address the licensing issues with two images, one of which requires you to call a library in Minnesota to confirm my suspicion

Copy changes

Lead

• Add comma before "themed"
• Change "eleven" to "11"

Background and construction

• Change "Jake's Fair." to "Jake's Fair". See MOS:LOGICAL
• Some fixes to this sentence: Intent on running for the 1982 Tennessee gubernational election, Butcher pointed that his opponent then Governor Lamar Alexander was a out-spoken supporter of the fair as well. should be Intent on running for governor in Tennessee in 1982, Butcher pointed out that his opponent, then-Governor Lamar Alexander, was also an outspoken supporter of the fair.
• in preparation of the fair change "of" to "for"
• Remove comma after "Great Smoky Mountains National Park"
• China's participation proved as a historical moment given the country's shift into a more capitalist economy, and the KIEE being the first exposition involving China since 1904. — tidy a bit. Suggested: China's participation proved historic given the country's shift to a more capitalist economy; the KIEE would be the first exposition involving China since 1904.
• Soviet swimming invitation: "relinquished" or "rescinded"?

Fair operations

• "Energy Turns the World." see Jake's Fair note
• "October 31st" → October 31
• The Rubik's Cube remains in World's Fair Park, where it has been displayed in the lobby of the Holiday Inn located adjacent to World's Fair Park. wordy and redundant sentence
• Noting here: the fireworks display sentence will need a citation to meet DYK requirements
• change "flavored Coke mixtures" to "flavors" to avoid an awkward hyphenation need
• Remove comma after "car phone"
• then on-going → then-ongoing
• The Knoxville-based fast food chain, Petro's Chili & Chips remove "the" and the comma
• "exhibition" shouldn't be capitalized for the NBA game

Difficulties

• Add comma after (UAB) to complete the appositive

Legacy

• the festival is debuted on May 14, 2022 reword
• Change "would open" to "opened"
• May 20-22 of 2022, change to "May 20–22" and consider consolidating with the paragraph before it

Collectibles

• Change "six-million" to "six million"

References

This is where I have some concerns. You should also archive all references with User:InternetArchiveBot. Also consider running a date script.

Dead links

There are some dead links and references that need expanding.

• Ref 29 (TIME 1985) — expand with further info
• Ref 34 — provide full info
• The NewsBank links are dead but I can likely source the articles through Newspapers.com (more on this below)
• Ref 39 is permanently dead and of uncertain origin. A possible replacement clipping is attached here:
• Ref 43, a citation to a WKXT-TV news story from 1991, could probably be replaced with a verifiable source.

Newspapers

This article is crying out for more sources, and honestly, it's crying out for sources through newspapers.com. Did you know that you can get resources through The Wikipedia Library and even apply for newspapers.com access, and you meet the editing criteria? Three years ago, I was recommended at DYK to get newspapers.com through TWL. It supercharged my Wikipedia career—29 GAs (with more than that in the pipeline) and 366 DYKs since March 2019. And it will do the same to you, with the News-Sentinel, some years of the Knoxville Journal, the Tennessean from Nashville, and the Commercial Appeal. The Knoxville and Memphis papers are fairly new additions but have already led to major projects on my part: WVLT-TV (GA), WEMG (Tennessee), WLOK, among others.

It will likely lead to substantial new finds and material to improve this article just to have the News-Sentinel, from experience in this market. For instance, from my WVLT-TV work, I can tell you that WTVK was the official station of the fair and even did a daily show from the Sunsphere (that lasted for a few months after the fair closed!). I'm exploring an article on United American Bank. The reason I've become so prolific is because I have such a great information source to improve broadcasting articles that were really in a backwater of Wikipedia.

Once you get access, the PressPass Greasemonkey script for Firefox makes most of the process of generating citation markup automated (except for authors and section-page numbers).

Source checks

• Ref 3: Checks out to describe the 1913 conservation expo
• Ref 8: Checks out
• Ref 20: Provides the reference for San Antonio's attendance. Is there a spreadsheet or single source that can replace the nine straight references in this area?
• Ref 30: Supports MOST claims but not the 2007 reopening of the Sunsphere
• Ref 45: Checks out
• Ref 46: Checks out
• Ref 53: While it supports the fact that there's been a flurry of anniversary coverage, it's not...much of a source for what it's being used for. It's a photo album.
• Ref 56: Supports the relaunch but says it was limited-time. Is there another source that says it's still being made?

Copyright

• Earwig flags a Flickr photo description at 91.8 percent, likely someone copying from us for their photo. Most of the other things it catches are organization names and quotes.

Images

Two images present possible issues:

• File:1982_World's_Fair_model.jpg was uploaded by a user tagged on Wikimedia Commons for engaging in "license laundering" for images that are copyrighted. It is impossible to discern if the images come from a brochure or other item with a copyright notice. It may not be appropriately licensed—I suspect not.
• File:Touch screen tech exhibit at Expo 82.jpg is absolutely baffling and I can see why it hooked you. The source you got it from mentions CC-BY-SA for some sort of tag functionality but not for the image. The source, https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll91:140, is the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota, which has the Control Data Corporation records and indicates, The Charles Babbage Institute holds the copyright to all materials in the collection, except for items covered by a prior copyright (such as published materials). Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provisions of the copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code). Where things get funky is that the listing indicates the photo may indeed have been published: Children at terminal; Contact article May/June 1982 Anecdotal evidence indicates that Contact was a magazine produced by Control Data, probably an internal one. I suspect someone has copyright here, but the status is so unclear my only recommendation to you is to call University of Minnesota Archives and Special Collections (phone number 612-624-7469) and ask someone.

• If Control Data's Contact did not carry a publication notice, this may be permissible, as this is pre-1989 work. However, the magazine is not available in the Babbage Institute files.

Captions look good, at least. Also, all images need alt tags.

References

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