Talk:Eureka Iron & Steel Works

Eureka Iron & Steel Works was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. 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
Date	Process	Result
June 6, 2020	Good article nominee	Listed
February 26, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 23, 2020.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that when Eureka Iron & Steel Works produced the first steel rails in the United States in 1865, it marked the beginning of the American steel industry?

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Did you know nomination

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:16, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Eureka Iron & Steel Works produced the first steel rails in the United States in 1865, which was the beginning of the American steel industry? Source 1: Wyandotte by Ken Munson, page 13 Source 2: The City of Detroit by Clarence Burton, page 80 Source 3: Detroit Free Press newspaper clip

- ALT1:... that ...? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)

Reviewed - Template:Did you know nominations/Harrison family of Virginia

Created by Doug Coldwell (talk). Self-nominated at 17:58, 13 December 2019 (UTC).[reply]

Article is new enough and long enough. Hook is within limits and historically interesting, and citations all check. One image is self created, and one is PD - i.e.Okay. QPQ satisfied. Article is good to go, however, I would recommend putting the year date (1865) that the first rails were made in the hook. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 22:12, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Gwillhickers: Thanks Gwillhickers for review and suggestion on hook, which I have added.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 22:54, 18 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Eureka Iron & Steel Works/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 20:29, 4 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Criteria

1. Prose On hold

2. Verifiability On hold

3. Depth of Coverage ✓ Pass

4. Neutral ✓ Pass

5. Stable ✓ Pass

6. Illustrations ✓ Pass

7. Miscellaneous On hold

Comments

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Expand the lead a bit

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:56, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"The new company had 20,000 shares valued at twenty-five dollars each" - Link shares to Stock

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:17, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"2-mile (3.2 km) of river frontage" - I think there's a way to produce a plural using the template, you'll have to look at the documentation for that. Having miles instead of mile will improve the grammar.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:22, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"A blast furnace and a bar mill known as the Wyandotte Rolling Mill" - Link blast furnace, we don't seem to have an article for bar mill

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:17, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"that it consumed 50,000 cords of wood a year" - Link cords to Cord (unit)

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:17, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Probably best to link charcoal too, although I won't insist on this if you think it's an overlink.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:17, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Drop the quote from ref 1, it's not related to the statement ref 1 is citing.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:25, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Check worldcat for OCLCs, Woodford 2001 is new enough it might have an ISBN, especially since it's published by a university.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:08, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Consider adding an infobox. It's not necessary, but it would help with the article.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:56, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Placing on hold. This one's in really good shape, I'm gonna go ahead and assess it as B class for now.

@Hog Farm: - All issues have been addressed. Can you take another look. Thanks. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:57, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment

This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]