Talk:John B. Curtis

John B. Curtis 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
September 2, 2021	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 November 21, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that John B. Curtis made the first commercially available chewing gum?

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:John B. Curtis/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 19:43, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

As one of the main topics, I think it's allowable here to link chewing gum.
Done

"spruce resin. He started with a spruce resin" repetitive.
Done

"he made from his chewing gum business" no need to repeat chewing gum.
Done

"salary of $5 a month" etc, inflate. But also I'd say what he did before how much he earned doing it.
Done

salable is a typo.
Done

"quantity that had produced" been
Done

"in 1848 and 1849.[2] In 1850," repetitive.
Done

"before his competition" first mention of competition...
Done

"Packing gum" fragment, no period, and why is the other image caption centrally aligned?
Done

"week or two" not encyclopedic tone.
Done

Did you mention what the "flavored" gum was flavoured as?
Done - researched extensively for the "flavor" and nothing shows in any books, google books, websites, or historical Newspapers.

"1,080,139 " too precise by far, nearest $1000 would suffice. Check all other conversions.
Done = this is done with the "-4" parameter in inflation template. The "-5" parameter would give to the nearest $10,000; etc

"most expensively built house" is that the same as "expensive house"
Done

Consider adding {{clear}} at the end of the Personal section to stop the image on the right crushing the refs.
Done

That's all I have for now. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 07:53, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: All issues have been addressed. Can you take another look. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (Get vaccinated!) 13:18, 31 August 2021 (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]

Intent to open an Independent GAR

I believe there's potential here to retain Good Article status and will be opening a GAR after the bot runs. ThadeusOfNazereth(he/him)^{Talk to Me!} 19:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]