Talk:Thaddeus Fairbanks

Thaddeus Fairbanks was one of the Engineering and technology 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
May 25, 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 12, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the first platform scale was built in 1830 by Thaddeus Fairbanks (pictured) to measure large loads accurately?

Current status: Delisted good article

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GA Review

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

Reviewer: Whiteguru (talk · contribs) 21:45, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Starts GA Review Page. Hopefully we will start the review shortly. Thank you --Whiteguru (talk) 21:45, 19 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Observations

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

Prose, grammar and choice of words noted. Well scribed.

It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):

Good work on references, for a page created in 2008, no linkrot was encountered.

It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):

I have a query about her death in the infobox. Is this standard?

It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:

NPOV is very well preserved.

It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:

Page created 8 November 2008
Page has 288 edits by 54 editors
90 day pageviews = 1,457 views
average daily view = 16
page has had significant clean-up and updating, recently. All references found to be valid
page history is stable, no edit warring is observed.

It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

Thaddeus Fairbanks c. 1880.jpg = is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer.
Fairbanks scale and log table - Bureau of Mines Boulder City Experimental Station = a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States
Fairbankbanks scales array.jpg = reviewed on 1 April 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.
St Johnsbury Academy - Colby Hall.jpg = Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
Fairbanks, Morse and Company Building.jpg = Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license
Very large Fairbanks scale..jpg = Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Fairbanks Scale at home.jpg = Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Fairbanks platform scale.jpg = Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Various Fairbanks scales.jpg = Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
First American Platform Scale.jpg = Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Fairbanks track scale.jpg = Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license
FairbanksCottonScaleSmithsCovingtonLA.JPG = Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont.jpg = Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Fairbanks person weigh scale.jpg = Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

Overall:

Sir Thaddeus Fairbanks: This was a good man and an example as a benefactor and donor

Passed

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]