George Harrison Barbour was one of the Social sciences and society good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the
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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
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The result was: promoted by
Yoninah (
talk) 14:55, 28 January 2020 (UTC)reply
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Doug Coldwell: I'll review all five of these. Due to the number of nominations, I will not be using the reviewer template. Instead I will note each criteria for all of the articles.
All are new enough
All are long enough
All are sourced
All are neutral
No copyright violations found
No other problems, though you may want to look into adding some wikilinks.
All of the hooks need minor grammatical improvement. I suggest these:
Image is clear and free. However, it is only used on the
World's Largest Stove article. @
Doug Coldwell: I wonder if you can add this image to the other pages as well, just to be safe.
epicgenius (
talk) 20:52, 7 January 2020 (UTC)reply
Just the question about the hook, and this will be good to go.
epicgenius (
talk) 20:19, 7 January 2020 (UTC)reply
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Epicgenius: Great improvements on ALT3 and ALT4 which I prefer. I would rather go with either one of these and scratch my original hook and ALT1 and ALT2 I submitted.--
Doug Coldwell (
talk) 20:37, 7 January 2020 (UTC)reply
Anything you can add to the lead to make it a couple sentences longer? Would it be appropriate to mention that he got his start with the general store?
The other name in the infobox isn't necessary, nothing's spelled different and abbreviating the middle name is common enough for most people that it's not a notable other name.
Mid life is a bit non-standard for a heading in a biography. Since all of the content is about the Michigan Stove Company, I'd recommend renaming the section to Michigan Stove Company.
"and chairman of the board a couple of years after that." - Probably better to give the exact year or to say two years later. "a couple of" is a tad colloquial for encyclopedic tone (I've had similar phrases in my GA candidates called out for that), and anymore isn't always used as the exact meaning of two.
"He organized the Michigan Copper & Brass Company in 1907;[7] He was its president " - Either replace the semicolon with a period or the second he should be lowercase.
"He was its president until 1914 and sold his company shares" - The meaning of "and sold his company shares" is unclear. Are you trying to indicate that he sold his shares in 1914 when he stepped down as president?
"Barbour was also president of the Ireland & Mathews Manufacturing Company, the vice president of the Dime Savings Bank and First National Bank." - Grammar's a tad rough in this sentence. If the intended meaning was that he was president of I & M and was vice president of the two banks, replace the comma with "and". As of right now, the later half is a clause to nowhere.
"He was sick from pneumonia a week before he died" --> "He was sick from pneumonia for a week before he died", the other wording can have the implication that the pneumonia simply occurred a week before he died and didn't contribute to the passing.