Talk:647 Fifth Avenue

647 Fifth Avenue 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 647 Fifth Avenue appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the George W. Vanderbilt Residence has been occupied by American Express, Olympic Airlines, and Versace, but never by Vanderbilt himself?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/647 Fifth Avenue.

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Did you know nomination

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 Desertarun (talk) 20:04, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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George W. Vanderbilt Residence at 647 Fifth Avenue

... that in response to the proposed addition of a glass facade on 647 Fifth Avenue (pictured), Ada Louise Huxtable wrote the architects "have obviously never heard of the Let-It-Alone Club"? Source: Huxtable, Ada Louise (December 5, 1976). "Architecture View". The New York Times.
- ALT1:... that 647 Fifth Avenue (pictured) is the only remaining Vanderbilt family residence on a portion of New York City's Fifth Avenue once known as "Vanderbilt Row"? Source: Reed, Henry Hope, Jr. (August 12, 1962). "The Changing Face of Fifth Avenue: the Great Families Have Retreated From Their Fifth Avenue Strongholds, Leaving Some Midtown Masterpieces". New York Herald Tribune. p. F2.
- ALT2:... that the George W. Vanderbilt Residence (pictured) has been occupied by American Express, Olympic Airlines, and Versace, but never by Vanderbilt himself? Source: various in article

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Opal Lee
Comment: More hooks later

Created by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 22:26, 19 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: There's no doubt that this article is long enough; main hook is sourced, ALT 1 is sourced, ALT 2 is sourced but scattered; Earwig generates a good result; QPQ done. Judging this from a non-American perspective, the main hook is too long and too idiomatic for readers to understand, ALT 1 is very confusing for those who never knew about Vanderbilt. ALT 2 on the other hand is very quirky and I've proposed an ALT blurb for this: ALT2A:... that the George W. Vanderbilt Residence (pictured) has never been occupied by Vanderbilt himself? Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 17:01, 20 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:647 Fifth Avenue/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

Move "Use mdy dates" below the hatnote.
Add alt text to every image being used.
"aboveground" should be two words.
"in a manner similar to" - kinda wordy
"on the site to designs" - reword
Add a serial comma after "a new mezzanine".
"through second story" → "through the second story"
"the plan an" → "the plan as an"
Wikilink The New York Times and Alex Kuczynski.

Progress

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) 19:01, 9 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]