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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 18:18, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]


I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 18:18, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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  • What makes the following reliable sources?
  • "The symbolism of the dome led bank officials to request the inclusion of a dome atop its second headquarters": what is meant by "the symbolism of the dome"? Just that they liked it?
  • "The banking room originally had ornate marble floors...In the early 2010s, the banking room's floor was replaced with blocks of marble from Lebanon, as only a quarter of the original floor remained. The surviving floor, made of Siena marble, was used for the bathrooms": assuming that these are the same, suggest "The banking room originally had ornate Siena marble floors...In the early 2010s, the banking room's floor was replaced with blocks of marble from Lebanon, as only a quarter of the original Siena marble floor remained; this was used for the bathrooms."
  • Suggest linking Neo-Grec.
  • "Karl Muller was hired to create an allegorical sculptural group for the bank's exterior": this doesn't seem to be mentioned elsewhere; do we know if this was completed?
  • Are there more details about the 1925 annex? Doesn't seem like there would have been much room for an expansion to the north, and the view on Google Maps doesn't show any obvious separately constructed bit there.
  • "At the time, 75 percent of the original marble floors had been damaged": this is odd, because we know that 75% of the original floors were no longer there by 2010. Then we get "New marble floors were installed in the banking room, while the remnants of the original floors were moved to the restrooms" which seems inconsistent with the earlier statement that the bathrooms were the only places with the original marble.
    • I removed the "75 percent" bit because the source says only 25 percent of the original marble remained. As for bathrooms/restrooms, these are synonymous in American English. For a minute, I was trying to figure out where the inconsistency was, because I was thinking "yeah, the restrooms were the only places with the original marble". Epicgenius (talk) 00:53, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      Struck. I did know that restrooms and bathrooms are the same thing in AmEng; I was just confused because I hadn't realized that two references (in "Original banking room" and "Conversion to event venue") to three-quarters of the marble floor being gone and the only remaining marble being used for the bathrooms were both referring to the same remodeling event. Having reread I think it's clear enough. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:17, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • "The skylight above the original banking room was damaged after having been stored for three-quarters of a century": what does "stored" mean? Closed off? Or had the fitting been physically removed and stored somewhere?
  • Are any of the films or TV shows shot there notable enough to be worth naming?

-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:57, 13 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Everything looks good; passing. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:17, 14 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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