Talk:Guggenheim Abu Dhabi

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi 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
Date	Process	Result
October 24, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on October 1, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the United Arab Emirates has signed an agreement with the Guggenheim Foundation to build a Guggenheim museum in Abu Dhabi?

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Copyright problem removed

One or more portions of this article duplicated other source(s). The material was copied from these URLs: http://www.guggenheim.org/press_releases/release_159.html and http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/guggenheim-uae/ Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a license compatible with GFDL. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 15:09, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help in fixing the articles copyright problems and violations. Much appreciated. Jor dan ^Contribs 15:36, 7 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Guggenheim Abu Dhabi/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

This article is in decent shape, but it needs more work before it becomes a Good Article.

Is it well written?
A. The prose is clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct:
The lead seems very short and it would be best to summarize the entire article, per here.

B. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:
Dates need to be unlinked, per here. The links to "Guggenheim Foundation" and "Guggenheim" need to be linked correctly.
Is it verifiable with no original research, as shown by a source spot-check?
A. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline:
Reference 4, 13, and 15 are missing Publisher info.

B. Reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose):
Does Reference 8 cover all this ---> "Gehry was inspired by the location and the intent, noting, "The landscape, the opportunity, the requirement, to build something that people all over the world would come to and the possible resource to accomplish it opened tracks that were not likely to be considered anywhere else. The site itself, virtually on the water or close to the water on all sides, in a desert landscape with the beautiful sea and the light quality of the place suggested some of the direction"?

C. It contains no original research:

D. It contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism:
Is it broad in its coverage?
A. It addresses the main aspects of the topic:

B. It stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style):
Is it neutral?
It represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each:
Is it stable?
It does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute:
Is it illustrated, if possible, by images?
A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content:

B. Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:
Overall:
Pass or Fail:
If the statements above can be answered, I will pass the article. Good luck with improving this article!

-- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 16:56, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Folks, before we go about passing this article for GA, please consider whether quotes are overused. Is this entry encyclopedic? Do encyclopedias use large collections of quotes? Please read the quotation guides, and consider their application, before passing the article. Most kind regards, Lazulilasher (talk) 17:51, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Further, the computer generated image has a fair use rationale noting that it is a photograph of the Louvre Abu Dhabi. This is misleading, can this be corrected? Thanks, Lazulilasher (talk) 17:57, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Also, this article had numerous copyvio problems:

Note: This text was mis-sourced: "these will include: the Sheikh Zayed National Museum to be designed by the UK's Foster + Partners under the direction of Lord Norman Foster; the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi contemporary arts museum - the world's largest Guggenheim and the only one in the Middle East, which has been conceptualised by Frank Gehry; a performing arts centre designed by Zaha Hadid, a maritime museum with concept design by Tadao Ando and a number of arts pavilions", it links to French Culture.org (present #5, not #6).
Do you think the above article excerpt is too close to the source: "these will include: the Sheikh Zayed National Museum to be designed by the UK's Foster + Partners under the direction of Lord Norman Foster; the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi contemporary arts museum - the world's largest Guggenheim and the only one in the Middle East, which has been conceptualised by Frank Gehry; a performing arts centre designed by Zaha Hadid, a maritime museum with concept design by Tadao Ando and a number of arts pavilions"? (http://www.ameinfo.com/143289.html)
[t]he museum will include galleries for permanent collections, galleries for special exhibitions, a Department of Architecture and Design, a Center for Art and Technology, children’s education facilities, archives, library and research centre and a state-of-the-art conservation laboratory was directly taken from here without proper attribution (I just attributed it).

Please check to make sure these sorts of attribution errors to not occur in other areas of the text. Regards, Lazulilasher (talk) 18:46, 13 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to fail this article because of the comments above, so, after the comments are addressed this article can be renominated for GA. -- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) 18:00, 24 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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