Template:Did you know nominations/Warren C. Dickerson

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet talk 02:55, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

Warren C. Dickerson

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... that Warren C. Dickerson designed "some of the best examples of turn-of-the-20th-century architecture that transformed the Bronx into an urban extension of Manhattan"? Source: "Longwood Historic District
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Pathogenic microorganisms in frozen environments
- Comment: This hook violates my "shorter is better" rule. But that's OK.

Created by RoySmith (talk). Self-nominated at 01:56, 17 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Warren C. Dickerson; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

Picking this up. Updates to follow shortly. Ktin (talk) 03:46, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article meets eligibility criteria - newness, length. Is well sourced. QPQ is done. Earwig checks out -- scores a tad high on match, but that is due to direct quotes. No issues there. The hook itself is sourced and is referenced in the article. Hook is a tad too long.

Passing this back to the nominator to see if they would consider something like:

ALT1: ... that Warren C. Dickerson's 20th-century architectural works transformed the Bronx into an urban extension of Manhattan?

Takes some small liberties, but, is pithy.

I'm OK with ALT1, but since we're going down that path, perhaps:

ALT1a: that Warren C. Dickerson helped transform the Bronx into an urban extension of Manhattan?

Either is fine with me. RoySmith (talk) 13:49, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Minor:

Consider replacing "???" with death unknown or text like that.
Is the text " Historical and Architectural Introduction " needed in the legend for the footnote?
Took in $2,500,000: I am assuming this is revenues? Alternately sales, earnings?

Nice work. Passing this back to the nominator. Ktin (talk) 03:58, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Ktin thanks for the in-depth review. I took care of the first two. The long legend was because that appears on an unnumbered page in a longish document. But I guess people can just search for "1853". As for the third, the source says "aggregated ... over $2,500,000". It's not clear which of those things "aggregated" means, so I went for an equally vague description. I'd be happy for suggestions. RoySmith (talk) 13:49, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

@RoySmith:. Thanks. Good with either ALT1 or ALT1A. Both take a few liberties with the original statement, but, not egregious I think. Re: the $2.5M, it might refer to sales, but, hard to say. Marking approved. Ktin (talk) 14:16, 17 October 2023 (UTC)

Note to promoter: let's go with ALT1a if that's OK with you. RoySmith (talk) 14:39, 17 October 2023 (UTC)