Talk:Columbia University tunnels/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: GhostRiver (talk · contribs) 16:59, 17 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I'll be taking a look at this article for the January 2022 GAN backlog drive. If you haven't already signed up, please feel free to join in! Although QPQ is not required, if you're feeling generous, I also have a list of GA nominations of my own right here.

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()

3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()

Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

Lede

Ideally, because all of that information should be in the body, per WP:LEADCITE, the citations in the lede are redundant; if they aren't in the body already, they should be added there
Specify Columbia University in the City of New York, not just because that's how they spell it out sometimes, but to distinguish for readers from Columbia College Chicago and other similarly-named universities

History

"the university's move" → "Columbia University's move" with the wikilink
Specify that Morningside Heights is a neighborhood in Manhattan for those who do not live in the area
Use the conversion template for units of measurement like "fifty feet"
Link Manhattan Project in the body
"used for the Columbia Rifle Team" → "used by the Columbia Rifle Team"
Commas around "in response to the protests"
"freshmen dorms" → "freshman dorms" since "freshman" is used as an adjective here

Traditions

"Legends also" → "Urban legends also"

In popular culture

Good

References

"www.thecrimson.com" → "The Harvard Crimson with the wikilink
"NPR.org" → "NPR" with the wikilink

General comments

Image is properly licensed and relevant
No stability concerns in the revision history
Earwig score looks good
It would be helpful if there were a section before "History" titled "Structure" or something of the sort that simply gives a basic description of the tunnel system. I saw that very little of the tunnels have been mapped out, but that can be mentioned. It just feels like something is lacking at the moment

Putting on hold to allow nominator to address comments. Feel free to ping me with questions, and let me know when you're finished! — Ghost River 16:24, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Ghost River Done. As for a potential structure section, their is a lot of information on it on the internet, and the article used to contain much of it. However, much of it came from unreliable self-published sources, and is dangerously out of date (the heyday of tunnel exploration seemed to be in the 90s/early 00s). There doesn't seem to be enough info in the article right now to split off its own section, so I think this article might have to go without one. Normsupon (talk) 17:29, 18 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for making those changes, for your explanation, and for your patience as I have been waylaid by migraines. Passing now. — Ghost River 17:59, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]