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Thomas Elfe was one of the Art and architecture 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 June 14, 2014.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Thomas Elfe, a contemporary of Thomas Chippendale, was the most successful furniture craftsman in Charleston in the eighteenth century?

Current status: Delisted good article

GA Review

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

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 20:53, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

"was a successful colonial period furniture" not sure we need "successful" here, nor else he'd probably not be notable.
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fifteen-hundred -> 1,500.
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Lead needs expansion, I would imagine that a sentence for each of the major paragraphs of the biography would suffice.
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"He was a prolific furniture and cabinet craftsman of the American colonial period." this feels out of place being just after he was born.
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"settled in Virginia and" link.
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"cabinetmaker" link.
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"in Charles Towne," link?
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"His working career spanned almost thirty years from about 1746 to 1775.[7]" another odd "summary" sentence, better off in the lead than here.
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"6,200 English pounds - considered a fortune at the time" Just use £6,200. And considered by whom? If you keep that somehow, the hyphen should be

an en-dash.

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"one time director " one-time.
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"famous furniture craftsman in the eighteenth century" in the US presumably, not globally...?
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All of that para seems out of chronological order to the biography.
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"From there right around 1746 he ..." -> "and in around 1746..."
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"an ad in the" advertisment.
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"The £150 value would be several thousand dollars in the twentieth century" we have inflation/conversion for this.
Done Tried to put in inflation template for English money, but not sure if I did correct. Couldn't figure out how to convert English money into American dollars. Can you help on this? I appreciate it. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:41, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Charles Town" was Charles Towne above.
Done = should be Charles Towne. I corrected spelling.

"the average person of the city being several times wealthier on the whole " this feels rather woolly.
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"The wealthy Charlestonians loved London-style furnishings and would purchase most anything along these fashions that was handmade by local woodworkers. " this reads a little like a gossip column for me.
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"over fifteen hundred pieces" 1,500
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"paid £728 in" inflate/convert.
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"In 1761 they submitted a bill to the church for some interior woodwork they did. " feels trivial.
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"of a Mahogany Communion Table" Why The Capitals?
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£157, inflate/convert.
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"Thomas Elfe, Jr.," Wikipedia doesn't put commas before Jr. any longer.
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"several associates hand-made over fifteen-hundred furniture pieces including fancy cabinets" already said this. And "fancy cabinets" is not encyclopedic.
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"that were sold to Charleston's leading families and the wealthy" again, this feels like it's repeating.
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"furniture and to put up new furniture and to do minor repairs to furniture" furniture x 3 is repetitive.
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"the Declaration of Independence such" link to the actual one.
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"signers of the Declaration of Independence" signatories normally, and don't repeat DoI.
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"Elfe's work..." this para is very clunky, very short sentences introducing factoid after factoid. Needs smoothing out.
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"Elfe ad in South Carolina Gazette - January 7" advertisement, en-dash.
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"He didn't get" avoid contractions.
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"married ... married" repetitive.
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"several children.[29] Their names were" merge.
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"made a lot of money" not eneyclopedic tone.
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"234 acre plantation" convert.
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£1500. inflate/convert.
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"at £lOOO" why those O's??
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Ref 17, should p. 7-14. be pp. 7–14?
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Ref 23 needs an en-dash.
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As does 27.
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Ref 28, shouldn't jr. be Jr.? And no comma.
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Ref 33 has one too many full stops.
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McCrady needs en-dash.
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ISBNs need consistent format.
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That's all I have. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 15:27, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for review. I'll start working on it after lunch.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:35, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: All issues have been addressed. Can you take another look. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:01, 2 September 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]