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Former good articleThomas Hall (inventor) was one of the Natural sciences 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
August 25, 2022Good 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 May 22, 2022.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Thomas Hall made an electric train (pictured) that received power from the rails on which it travelled instead of onboard batteries, a new technology at the time?
Current status: Delisted good article

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Thomas Hall (inventor)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 22:32, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]


I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:32, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Images are appropriately tagged; sources are reliable.

  • "sounders, keys, and registers": can we get links or explanations for these?


  • "Hall with George W. Palmer bought out Davis's business in 1848 and formed Palmer & Hall": in the article on Daniel Davis we say he sold his firm in 1852 -- why the different dates?


  • The sentence beginning "Below are images" is uncited.


  • Please check for repetition in the "Electric locomotives" section; I noticed "The charged wheels of the locomotive, one side positive and the other side negative, were insulated from each other...The electric power to run the engine was picked up off the tracks through the steel wheels, with one track having the positive charge and the other track having the negative charge."


  • "This showed how little some technology had changed in 50 years": what is this referring to?


-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 00:49, 25 August 2022 (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]