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Former good article nominee900 West Randolph was a Art and architecture good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
October 26, 2023Good article nomineeNot listed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 13, 2023.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that 900 West Randolph, Chicago's first high-rise building built by a black-owned construction firm, has penthouses that can be rented for over $20,000 per month?

Non-RS history

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According to the blog https://buildingupchicago.com/2022/03/24/900-randolph-has-gone-3d-in-the-west-loop/, the following dates are part of the history of this building:

demolition permit for 160 North Peoria on 6/25/2021
first building permit, (all addressed at 164 North Peoria) for foundations on 7/30/2021
tower crane permit on 8/10/2021
full-build permit on 8/27/2021

-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 12:33, 7 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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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 AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 14:54, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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900 West Randolph from Randolph Street
900 West Randolph from Randolph Street
900 West Randolph from 727 West Madison
900 West Randolph from 727 West Madison

Created by TonyTheTiger (talk). Self-nominated at 03:35, 11 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/900 West Randolph; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: Yes
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Good article. The phrase "presented at 43 stories" reads a little awkward to me. Great photos here. If we're using the photos with the hook, we'll need a (pictured) in there somewhere. gobonobo + c 16:49, 14 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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Reviewer: Rublov (talk · contribs) 12:57, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]


GA criteria:

Ref spotchecks (three references chosen by random number generator):

  • 6: 18 stories, 260 units, OKW Architects, and landmarked building rehabilitation verified from source. The source does not mention Related Midwest. This is a little pedantic, but the article says "in the center of the block" while the source says "at the heart of the plan"; I'm not sure these mean exactly the same thing.
  • 22: Pass.
  • 25: Pass.

TonyTheTiger, thank you for preparing this article for GA. I am putting the review on hold pending your response to my comments above. rblv (talk) 14:05, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi TonyTheTiger, is this ready for me to take another look, or are you still working on it? rblv (talk) 11:11, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I think I thought I was done, but when you posted this query, I double-checked and found one remaining issue. I'll get to it this week.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 14:43, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
TonyTheTiger, I haven't forgotten about this. I am planning to another round of copy-editing by next week and show you my suggested changes. After that, I think it will pass the criteria. rblv (talk) 13:04, 13 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@TonyTheTiger: Here's where we're at. I took a stab at rewriting the lead and "Architecture" section (User:Rublov/900 West Randolph), but I didn't touch "History". The flow in that section is still very choppy and there's a lot of trivial detail that makes it hard to read. Happy to elaborate with specific examples if it's not clear to you. I can give you another a week to work on that. rblv (talk) 12:54, 20 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
@Rublov:, I have incorporated your suggestions. I am pretty much put all that I am going to put into this article for now.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 20:06, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@TonyTheTiger: Thank you for getting back to me, but I'm afraid that after a month it's time for me to close this review. I have found that the article still does not meet criteria (1) and (3), particularly in the "History" section, which needs a thorough copy-edit and culling of unnecessary detail.

  • The first three sentences are all disconnected from one another, and their relevance to the article topic is unclear.
  • The building is situated in the section of Randolph Street known as Restaurant Row. – odd digression from discussing the building's permitting process
  • for the project that was to be taller than anything west of Halsted – this feels like a detail that's tacked on to an unrelated sentence
  • that avails additional contiguous footage – I don't think this use of 'avails' is grammatical.
  • Thus, it has official billing as "the city's first high-rise with an African American Minority Business Enterprise co-leading construction". – kind of repeats the previous sentence; should be integrated better
  • Lots of unnecessary detail. Not of all this has to go, but altogether it's too much trivial information for a general-purpose encyclopedia article.
    • with 300 residential units and 220 parking spaces (referring to one of many intermediate design proposals, not the final building)
    • The first renderings of the building were unveiled at the beginning of February 2018 with a 170 North Peoria address.
    • according to June 2018 correspondences with 27th Ward Alderman Walter Burnett
    • The building permit for the project was issued to LR Contracting Company
    • 2,358–3,418 square feet (219.1–317.5 m2) with 12-foot-high (3.7 m) ceilings

I appreciate your work on the article and hope that it will become a GA in the future. rblv (talk) 02:09, 26 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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