Talk:Stuyvesant Farm/GA1

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Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 14:41, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]


Comments

  • "Peter Stuyvesant's house on the Great Bowery." fragment so no full stop required.
  • "of Peter Stuyvesant, as well" I think it's worth giving a bit of context as to who this individual was, at this point in the lead.
    • Immediately afterward, the sentence says that Stuyvesant was preceded in the position as Director of New Netherland. So either it would be repetitive to say "Director of New Netherland" before Stuyvesant's name, or the sentence needs to be rewritten. This isn't my nomination though. Epicgenius (talk) 21:27, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • Good point User:Epicgenius. I rewrote the sentence. Please let me know what you think. --Wil540 art (talk) 04:31, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
        I removed a stray semicolon, since these aren't two separate sentences. Otherwise, it looks good. – Epicgenius (talk) 14:57, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • "namesake of numerous local sites and institutions.[1][2][3]" those references don't need to be in the lead if they are used in the main body of the article in the "Namesakes" section (for example).
  • By "Dutch colonization", do you mean Dutch colonization of the Americas? Is that a suitable link?
  • "Dutch colonization ... Dutch colonization..." in consecutive sentences, bit repetitive.
    • Done. Seemed like the meaning could be retain by just removing the second instance. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 23:10, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Manatus map of 1639 ..." font on this looks a bit odd, or am I imagining it?
    • {{overlay}} seems to just have a parameter for title, and it's a bit bigger. We could try to resize it to be more like a regular image caption (does anyone know if <small> would suffice?)... — Rhododendrites talk \\ 23:18, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • "came to control Bowery No. 1 when he became" came/became, maybe "took control of"?
  • "Boweries 2- 6 " unspaced en-dash here.
  • "director of New Netherland" vs "Director of New Netherland", consistency.
  • "company Directors in " don't think this needs to be capitalised.
  • "Terms were generous enough..." this sentence is unreferenced.
  • Several entries in the Timeline are unreferenced, or if they are, they're not inline with some of the sentences.
  • "1776 Ratzer Map" avoid starting sentences/fragments with a numeral, and is "Map" needed to be capitalised?
    • I elaborated on the origin and details of the map. Not sure if it is too much info for caption. --Wil540 art (talk) 03:25, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • And who/what is "Ratzer"?
  • "1793, 1795-99 " en-dash and full year range required.
  • What are "NYCL" and "NRHP"?
  • Last three sentences of Residences section are unreferenced.
  • "The creeks emptied..." unreferenced.
  • "The tree stood .. where it stood" repetitive.
  • "founding of Kiehl's at" explain what Kiehl's is.
    • Sufficient to add its full name at the time (Kiehl's Pharmacy)? (Also, I added a ref in support there). — Rhododendrites talk \\ 20:18, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      • The full name at the time sounds appropriate to me. --Wil540 art (talk) 03:11, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Manhattan Blue Book, 1868" what's that?
  • ""Stuyvesant pear tree." fragment, no full stop.
  • "Modern namesakes" these should be inline referenced even if they are linked to Wikipedia articles.

That's all I have. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 19:58, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: Thanks for thorough review! The fine folks at WikimediaNYC and I have taken care of nearly everything above. The last unanswered issue is with the font size in the Overlay image which I do not know how to address. It does look slightly bigger to me as well. --Wil540 art (talk) 02:32, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ideally it can be addressed, but no reason not to promote, which I will now do. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 19:36, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]