Talk:Olympic Tower

Olympic Tower has been listed as one of the Art and architecture good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: July 10, 2021. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Olympic Tower appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that New York City's Olympic Tower was meant to reflect St. Patrick's Cathedral but instead gave the city "the back of its hand"?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 MeegsC (talk) 14:11, 27 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Olympic Tower

... that New York City's Olympic Tower (pictured) was meant to reflect St. Patrick's Cathedral but instead gave the city "the back of its hand"? Source: (1) Sabol, Blair (December 1, 1975). "Gossip: Trashcan Revival/The great European love affair—with America/SuperSue and movie fun... - JANUARY 1976". Vogue. pp. 96–97. (2) Huxtable, Ada Louise (January 26, 1978). "The Sabotaging of Public Space". The New York Times.
- ALT1:... that the head of the New York City Planning Commission threatened to revoke the certificate of occupancy for Olympic Tower (pictured) because its public atrium was not being used enough? Source: "The City". The New York Times. August 15, 1979.
- ALT2:... that Morris Lapidus begged for two years to design New York City's Olympic Tower (pictured), only to be fired after a special zoning district was created in the nearby area? Source: Stern, Robert A. M.; Mellins, Thomas; Fishman, David (1995). New York 1960: Architecture and Urbanism Between the Second World War and the Bicentennial. New York: Monacelli Press.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/UEFA Euro 1968 Final
Comment: more hooks pending

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 22:40, 23 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Length and history verified. All online refs verified, rest taken in GF. No copyright issues. Images good. Only issue is that in ALT1, reference shows it was not the Robert F. Wagner Jr. who was mayor, but rather his son, who was never mayor but at the relevant time chaired the city's Planning Commission. The hook needs to be so amended. Daniel Case (talk) 04:38, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Daniel Case: Whoops, I did not realize I made that mistake. That is a good catch - I sometimes get confused between the two. I have fixed it now. Epicgenius (talk) 23:31, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go now. Daniel Case (talk) 04:13, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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

Reviewer: Some Dude From North Carolina (talk · contribs) 23:31, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, I'm going to be reviewing this article. Expect comments by the end of the week. Some Dude From North Carolina (talk) 23:31, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments[edit]

Move "Use" templates below the hatnote.
Add alt text to every image being used.
"the most dense" → "the densest"
"a wind blew" - is the "a" necessary?
Don't use colons in the sentence starting with "Law firm".
Capitalize "President" before Corazon Aquino.
Wikilink The New York Times, John Tierney (journalist), Mimi Sheraton, Bill Geist, and Sarah Lyall.

Progress[edit]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)
It is reasonably well written. a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): It is factually accurate and verifiable. a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): It is broad in its coverage. a (major aspects): b (focused): It follows the neutral point of view policy. Fair representation without bias: It is stable. No edit wars, etc.: It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate. a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass/Fail:
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@Some Dude From North Carolina: Thanks. I've fixed all of these. Epicgenius (talk) 19:05, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]