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Former good articleRichard Henry Park was one of the Art and architecture good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. 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
DateProcessResult
October 28, 2020Good article nomineeListed
February 26, 2023Good article reassessmentDelisted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 31, 2017.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that "Merchant Prince and Princely Merchant" John Plankinton built a mansion (pictured) as a wedding gift for his daughter Elizabeth, but she refused to live in it because her fiancé Richard Henry Park ran off with a dancer?
Current status: Delisted good article

ALT hooks with Park

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@EdChem: I like your wording of ... that "Merchant Prince and Princely Merchant" John Plankinton built a mansion (pictured) as a wedding gift for his only daughter, Elizabeth, but she refused to live in it because her fiancé, Richard Henry Park, ran off with a dancer?" Would it be appropriate to make that ALT2c and strike all the other ALTs so there is no confusion for the promoter? --Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:13, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Doug Coldwell: I have been wondering about re-arranging the nomination to make it clearer, but I thought I'd leave it until we can make RHP bolded. On this expansion, it seems to me that we need to include:
  • basic biographical details
  • sections on major works
  • clarifications on his relationship with Plankinton
  • infobox?
  • Do away with the external links that belong as references by incorporating them
I'm glad to see you've made a start. Are there other areas we need to cover, in your view? EdChem (talk) 12:12, 24 January 2017 (UTC) PS: Oops on the edit summary I just used, mentioned wrong person! EdChem (talk) 12:13, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@EdChem: All the above sounds correct to me. I have done a few biographies as you can see in my list of Did You Knows. An infobox is a great idea. Question - how did you come up with 2500 as the amount needed to qualify? My first impression (from little voices in my head) is that ALT2c should be dropped in NOW and we should just go ahead and expand the article on a day-to-day basis. Perhaps we should make it NOW as ALT2c? I don't see that it hurts things, doing it this way = similar to what I have done in the past for biography expansions.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 12:45, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Doug Coldwell: The pre-expansion (baseline version) is this, with 649 characters, so the required size is 5 × 649 = 3245, so the extra needed is 3245 − 649 = 2596 characters. However, I had already added 148 so it was down to 2448 needed when I said "about 2500". Given your concerns, I'll update the DYK nom. EdChem (talk) 13:20, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
O.K. Thanks for explanation.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 13:23, 24 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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

Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 20:56, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Going to be reviewing for the GAN October 2020 Backlog Drive. MWright96 (talk) 20:56, 27 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars, etc.:
  6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
    a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:

Lead

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  • Wikilink Vice President of the United States


  • "He did a sculpture of Milwaukee's first white settler and first mayor. He also created sculptures for the Chicago World's Fair of 1893." - consider merging these two sentences together


Life and career

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  • "Park was born February 17, 1838," - born on February


  • "working as an assistant to Palmer[3] alongside other future sculptors Launt Thompson[4] and Charles Calverley.[5]" - commas will be need to be added before each of the citations


  • "He moved to New York city to establish an independent career before moving to Florence, Italy around 1871." - the word in bold begins with a capital letter



  • "Park's early work was in marble, later changing to the medium of bronze for natural sculptures, in line with the American trend for late nineteenth century sculptures." - sentence will need to be verified by a reliable source
  •  Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 10:46, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]







  • "It has been suggested that Park's most enduring legacy may be his role as mentor and teacher to Lawrie." - suggested by whom?


  • "He is best known for his Actor's Monument to Edgar Allan Poe (1884) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city, and the Drake Fountain in Chicago (1892)." - sentence will require a reliable source to verify that it is correct


  • Also for the above sentence, the parentheses can be removed and the sentence be reworded accordingly


  • "Dimmick's view is confirmed by his obituary in the Chicago Tribune dated November 8, 1902, which states he died "at the "Battle Creek sanitarium." - sentence needs to be verified by a reliable source


  • Chicago Tribune can be wikilinked

Washington monument, 1885

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  • "at a cost of around $20,000[23]" - a comma is missing before the citation


  • "restorer Andrzej Dajnowski discovered major cracking in one of the legs " - what caused the cracking?

Juneau Monument, 1887

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  • "having been the area's first white settler and the first Mayor of the city." - the city's first Mayor.


  • "The monument cost around $25,000 (equivalent to $641,000 in 2019)[24]" - a comma is missing before the citation


  • "and depicts Juneau "clothed in the habit of the pioneer"[32]" - same issue as above


  • "Strong similarities have been noted between the sculpture's visage and that of Park's Washington statue." - noted by whom?

References

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  • The hyphens in the number sections of References 3, 4, 5, 6 and 20 should be replaced by en dashes (–) per MOS:DASH

Newspaper and web

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  • askArt ""Richard Park (1832-1902)"" - the hyphen needs to be replaced by an en dash


  • Be consistent in how Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is written; it should be either Milwaukee Journal Sentinel or The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel


Will put the review on hold to allow the nominator to address or query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 08:08, 28 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment

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This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]