Talk:Beekman Park

Beekman Park was a Geography and places good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
December 5, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 26, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that all of Beekman Park in Amenia, New York, was once the site of a freshwater lake?

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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Beekman Park/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Conclusion: Fail[edit]

While the article is well-written, the following reasons have caused it to fail its GAN:

The article does not stay focused on the issue, going into unnecessary detail (review criterion #3). Biographies of park-installation namesakes make up the bulk of the article when only a glancing reason why it was so named and a Wikilink to the namesake are merited.
Park does not seem notable at present (as duly noted with a tag) for both implicit and explicit reasons; i.e., the only reason the park appears to be notable is for its housing of Lake Amenia (which doesn't have its own article and shouldn't be the focus of this one). Also, all references come from non-independent sources (review WP:RS)—with three of the four from the same source: Amenia Historical Society. Review Wikipedia:N#General_notability_guideline.

As an aside, it would be nice to include some pictures of the park, although GA status is not dependent upon this. Best regards --Eustress (talk) 20:02, 5 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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