Talk:Wigwam (Chicago)/GA1

GA Reassessment[edit]

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This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force in an effort to ensure all listed Good articles continue to meet the Good article criteria. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, listed below. I will check back in seven days. If these issues are addressed, the article will remain listed as a Good article. Otherwise, it may be delisted (such a decision may be challenged through WP:GAR). If improved after it has been delisted, it may be nominated at WP:GAN. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far.

My major concern with this article is that it contains only one rather short paragraph on what is supposedly its subject, the temporary wooden building that stood between 1860 and its demolition some time between 1867 and 1871. It reads more like a history of the site than of the short-lived 19th-century Wigwam. As such, it probably needs to be restructured chronologically. If there's nothing else been published on the building then I somewhat doubt that it could even be considered notable enough for an article.
- Keep in mind that this is a historical site recognized as a Chicago Landmark. It is notable.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:09, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Have no descriptions of the interior of the building been published? How was it fitted out?
- It says entirely built of wood and there is a picture of the interior. This is 1860 architecture that was demolished soon thereafter. There might not be much detail.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:16, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I don't understand the relevance of the Conventions section.
- I am trying to make it clear that several conventions have occurred in Chicago in buildings known as the Wigwam. The one that really occurred in the subject of this article was the 1860 convention.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:10, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - That's what I'm not quite getting. What's this article about? The short-lived wooden building, the site, the 1860 convention, or the conventions that Chicago has hosted in various other "Wigwams"? (Why is "Wigwam" capitalised anyway, if it doesn't refer to one particular wigwam?) --Malleus Fatuorum 20:09, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - I think each building was known as the "Wigwam" with a capital W. In truth, I am having trouble convincing myself that this is really still a GA. I sort of surrender the fight on this one. There is not much more I can do for it.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 23:22, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
      - My view is that an article on the site might be noteworthy, but this isn't that article. So I'm going to delist it. --Malleus Fatuorum 23:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Neither do I understand the significance of the uncited trivia/pop culture section at the end.
- Removed.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:13, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

--Malleus Fatuorum 18:22, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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