Talk:Fort Tryon Park/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 02:10, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Criteria

1. Well-written

Prose clear, concise, and understandable Y See some of the comments below

Spelling/Grammar Y I corrected a few minor issues as I went along.

Lead Y

Layout Y

Buzzwords/fiction/lists Y

2. Verifiable

No original research Y

List of references properly formatted Y

Inline citations from RS Y

No COPYVIO Y None detected.

3. Broad in coverage

Covers main aspects Y

Stays on topic Y, but see comment below at the public image section

4. Neutral Y

5. Stable Y

6. Illustrated if possible

Media tagged for copyright status Y Images all appear to be tagged as uploader's own work except for one, which is tagged as a donated image. There is no obvious reason to doubt the own work tags.

Media relevant Y

I have one concern about the media. One of the images, the image of patrons on the lawn, shows a fairly close, high-enough resolution to be recognizable shot of a patron's face. I'm not super familiar with the nuances of privacy law, but is this a situation in which the subject would have to give permission for the image to be released? The person would not be trackable to get said permission, so somebody probably better look into the applicable privacy law with that.

@Hog Farm: I don't think this should be an issue, as it is not disallowed in Wikimedia Commons, but I'll look into replacing it. I took hundreds of pictures of the park a couple months ago. epicgenius (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: That ought to be good again. Since Commons doesn't disallow it, that'll work. Hog Farm (talk) 14:43, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Notes

"Geography and geology" Is "inter-laid" usually hyphenated? I've always seen it as "interlaid." Also, the redlink to Dyckman Street Fault should be taken care of, either through removal of the wikilinks or article creation.

• Resolved the "interlaid".
• Removed the redlink. epicgenius (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

"Site" "As of 1711, leaders declared" Which leaders?

• Harlem leaders. I fixed this. epicgenius (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

"Late-20th and early-21st century improvements" WP:SEAOFBLUE at "Bette Midler's nonprofit organization, New York Restoration Project. I'd recommend "nonprofit organization" to be the one to be delinked.

• Rearranged the sentence to retain all of the link. epicgenius (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

"Plantings" Is "Picnic Grounds" a specifically-named portion of the park? If not, it shouldn't be capitalized.

• Yes, it is a proper name for the park feature, per the NYCLPC report. epicgenius (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

"Playgrounds" "a triangle-shaped play area that primarily serves Inwood" What is Inwood?

• It is a neighborhood. This was explained in the lead. epicgenius (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

"The Cloisters" Should the first b in "belgian blocks" be capitalized?

• Yes, I have done that. epicgenius (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

"Linden Terrace" The point is the highest spot in the Manhattan landscape, but not the highest spot in Manhattan. You should probably explain what you mean by this in the article.

• It is the highest landscape feature, which is what the Times says. I.e. the highest point on Manhattan that doesn't require climbing a skyscraper. epicgenius (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

"Concession building" SEAOFBLUE from the improvements section again.

• Removed the duplicate link. epicgenius (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Caption of the gazebo image I don't believe that gazebo should be capitalized in that usage.

• Fixed. epicgenius (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

"Public use and perception" I think listing the number of citations for public intercourse in 2018 constitutes excessive detail, although you may disagree with me about this.

• Done this. epicgenius (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

I haven't checked the references yet, I'll get along to that soon. I've left some preliminary comments about the other criteria. Good work. Hog Farm (talk) 04:26, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Sources

Source 1: This takes me to a search function page. It would be nice to have the link directly to the subsite where Fort Tryon Park is listed, if possible.

Source 146: Is a bare reference name.

• Fixed both source 1 and 146. Now both are combined under a single source. epicgenius (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

External links

Two of the external links, the Friends of the Park link and the Annual Medieval Festival link, are links to Wayback Machine page archives. I'm not sure if that is compatible with the requirement at WP:LINKSTOAVOID that external links be to a functioning website.

• Removed one of the links & replaced the other. epicgenius (talk) 02:20, 13 January 2020 (UTC)

Overall, very good. See my notes above, most of the issues should be fairly easy fixes. Hog Farm (talk) 22:51, 11 January 2020 (UTC)