Talk:Macon Library/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: QatarStarsLeague (talk · contribs) 22:39, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

First of all, I would say the lead has to be a bit longer. It would be at your discretion, but I think we should add a few more sentences about the library, its function or its history. It's a bit thin as is.

• Makes sense. I've rewritten to include more details from the body of the article.

For the Cost part of the Infobox, we could add in parentheses the present-day dollar value of the building's cost. A lot of similar articles have this info.

• I'm wary of the inflation template considering the caveat at the top: "This template defaults to calculating the inflation of Consumer Price Index values: staples, workers' rent, small service bills (doctor's costs, train tickets). For inflating capital expenses, government expenses, or the personal wealth and expenditure of the rich, the US-NGDPPC or UKNGDPPC indexes should be used, which calculate inflation of the Nominal Gross Domestic Product per capita for the United States and United Kingdom, respectively." I tried it out with both the US and US-NGDPPC indices which result in vastly different values: for the CPI index, "equivalent to $3,056,829 in 2023" whereas for the National Gross Domestic Product per capita index, "". I suppose the construction of a library is more likely "capital expenses, government expenses, or the personal wealth and expenditure of the rich" but I'm uneasy about putting the value in the article.

Did Carnegie's grant cover part of the cost of the collection, or was the Board of Estimate money the only funding for the books?

• Pretty sure the Carnegie money was for the building itself and the BoE money was for the collection but I'll doublecheck the print source when I can get my hands on it to see if there's any clarifying info there.

"The latter project was headed by Leslie Defer Architect." Seems like it would be Leslie Defer, architect or Leslie Defer Architects

• I'll see if I can get the source for this and doublecheck but I've changed it for now.

"The renovation also included the addition of an African American Heritage Center." Heritage Center would be lower case, unless it is the title of the structure in which case you would be referring to "the" Center, not a/an center

• Good call. Changed.

Lastly, any info on the collection? Any noteworthy pieces or pretty standard stuff?

• I think the African American Heritage Center's probably the most notable part of the collection. I'll see if there's more info on it anywhere.

Well-done article on a really cool topic (the Carnegie libraries). Should be ready for GA soon. QatarStarsLeague (talk) 22:39, 9 August 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for the review, QatarStarsLeague. I need to get ahold of a copy of the Dierickx book again to check up on some of the points you've raised and I'm going to see if I can hunt down more about the African American Heritage Center but other than that, I think the article's better than it was before thanks to your kind suggestions. I'll let you know when I get the book and am ready for a second look at the article. All the best, BobAmnertiopsis∴_ChatMe! 19:19, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

That sounds good, but on second thought those concerns really shouldn't stop the article from hitting the GA level. Everything that was a barrier has been fixed. Excellent work here! QatarStarsLeague (talk) 02:32, 14 August 2017 (UTC)