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Good articleVlastimil Koubek has been listed as one of the Art and architecture good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
June 26, 2012Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on February 2, 2011.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that architect Vlastimil Koubek arrived in the United States from Czechoslovakia with just $12, but by the end of his career had designed buildings worth more than $2 billion?

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Reviewer: Thine Antique Pen (talk · contribs) 22:24, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I shall review this article. TAP 22:24, 22 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to strike the below when done or commenting on it.

Lead
  • Entire
  • Please remove references 4 and 5 from the lead as they are used in the article. Per 1b.
  • With references 6 and 7, they are only in the lead. The information should be mentioned in the article, if possible.
  • "Modernist" ⇒ "modernist"?
  • "Postmodernism" ⇒ "postmodernism". Also, could link to postmodernism.

I think its common to see capital letters for this. Request a third party to comment on it.

Early Life
  • Paragraph 1
  • Short, but grand.
  • Paragraph 2
  • "of Allied-occupied" ⇒ "of allied-occupied".
  • Paragraph 3

That's not essential but I will do so.♦ Dr. Blofeld 11:12, 23 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Career
  • Paragraph 1
  • Rosslyn
  • Grand.
  • Other works in the 1960s
  • "that was the first skyscraper in the city" — unlink skyscraper, linked in lead.
Its customary to link in lead and then once in the body.♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:39, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  • "The first major office building to be constructed on the Georgetown waterfront in 50 years,[34] it formerly housed the Henry J. Kaufman advertising firm" — new sentence in middle?
No, the citation is in the middle of sentence after the comma.
  • Works from the 1970s
  • "By the end of 1975, the New York Times was reporting that Koubek's firm had designed roughly half the office buildings built in the District of Columbia since the 1950s" — link NYT article fully; The New York Times.
if you look at the pipe link it already does this.
  • The Willard renovation
  • Critic Paul Goldberger, writing for New York Times declared the renovation ingenious" — {{when}}?
1986. Added
  • Other 1970s projects
  • Grand.
  • Works of the 1980s
  • "He also designed Shockoe Plaza (now known as Shockoe Slip), a seven-building ..." ⇒ "He also designed Shockoe Slip (formerly Shockoe Plaza), a seven-building ..."
Changed.
  • Final works
  • Fine.
Other activities
Changed.
Later years and death
  • Grand.
Design philosophy
  • Fine.
Legacy
  • Bit of a list, could be rewritten.
Well, it is a list of notable works really so I think its appropriate.

I shall put this on hold until the issues above have been addressed. Thanks! TAP 18:28, 25 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

  1. Is it reasonably well written?
    A. Prose quality:
    B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists:
  2. Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
    A. References to sources:
    B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary:
    C. No original research:
  3. Is it broad in its coverage?
    A. Major aspects:
    B. Focused:
  4. Is it neutral?
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. Is it stable?
    No edit wars, etc:
  6. Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
    A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales:
    B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions:
  7. Overall:
    Pass or Fail:


Thanks! TAP 15:41, 26 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]