Template:Did you know nominations/Abraham H. Albertson
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Lee Vilenski (talk) 17:37, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
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Abraham H. Albertson
- ... that quotations by architect A. H. Albertson about the 1910–Cobb Building were immortalized 80 years later in a staircase in nearby University Street station? Source: "The quotation in the stair risers is from Seattle Tower architect A.H. Albertson, describing his creation on the other side of University Street." [1]
Created by MB (talk). Self-nominated at 01:44, 2 January 2020 (UTC).
Review results: Article is new enough, long enough, clearly and concisely written, policy compliant, and properly illustrated. QPQ done. I went ahead and did a copyedit of the piece as a GOCE member–minor changes only. Original hook is verified by (a rather weak) reference. A few issues to be addressed regarding verifiability of cited references: 1) I cannot verify the statements from the given sources at "...with a Ph.B[2] in 1895.[3]", I think they may be reversed(?) possibly. Please re-check these (the 1895 date CAN be verified in ref [2]). 2) the final reference pointing to Preservation Bulletins needs a better focus as to what sub-page of that site you are directing the reader to, it currently points to an indeterminate index page. 3) the original hook (which references material not given until way down by the end of the article) refers to Albertson quotes in the station stair risers – I guess I as a reader would want to know at least what some of the quotes say. Perhaps an alternate hook is in order, focusing more on his work on several of Seattle's landmarks? GenQuest "Talk to Me" 14:48, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
- 1) ref [2] shows Ph.B in 1895. ref [3] is the only one that says he attended School of Architecture, not just Columbia University. I moved the refs around.
- 2) ref changed to the list of SF landmarks.
- 3) I don't know what the quotes are and haven't found more details. But I thought it was interesting that 80 years later, his words were used like this as public art. Nothing about him designing buildings really stood out to me as "hooky"; that is what architects do. So I'd like to keep the hook. MB 16:36, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
Concerns have been addressed. GenQuest "Talk to Me" 21:42, 3 January 2020 (UTC)
