Talk:Financial Historic District (Washington, D.C.)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sammi Brie (talk · contribs) 21:55, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

• Sorry for the delay @Sammi Brie:, I've had real life events keeping me occupied. I'll work on this today. APK hi :-) (talk) 19:28, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

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 copy cleanup is all that this article needs. Your work on taking almost all the current images in superb. Too bad the Walker Building got skipped over! Ping me when done. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 22:22, 9 March 2024 (UTC)

Did you know? If you fancy doing so, I always have plenty of GA nominees to review. Just look for the all-uppercase titles in the Television section. Reviews always appreciated.

Copy changes

Lead

• Major banks and other financial institutions wanted to be close to the Treasury Building, therefore, many of the historic district's buildings were constructed along 15th Street NW The first comma should be a semicolon, as it joins two sentences.
• Three sentences in a row start with Architects.

History

• Don't hyphenate the centuries in the section headers
• The gradual transition of 15th Street NW to a financial district occurred in the 19th century, mostly due to the Treasury Building, and banks desiring to be near it. Remove the last comma
• the City Beautiful movement began and Beaux-Arts architecture became a popular style throughout the country Add a comma after "began" (WP:CINS)
• Improve list hierarchy with this punctuation: In addition to the Bond Building, this was shown in the 1900s with construction of the Colorado Building at 14th and G Streets NW, designed by Ralph S. Townsend in 1902; the National Metropolitan Bank Building, built in 1907 and designed by B. Stanley Simmons; and the W. B. Hibbs and Company Building, constructed in 1908 and designed by Bruce Price and Jules Henri de Sibour.
• Beaux-Art should be Beaux-Arts
• The 1910s saw continued growth in the city's banking industry, therefore new elaborate buildings were constructed in the financial district. should be The 1910s saw continued growth in the city's banking industry; therefore, new elaborate buildings were constructed in the financial district.
• The Federal-American National Bank, designed by de Sibour and Alfred Bossom, is a neoclassical building that is one of three surviving banking properties at the intersection of 14th and G Streets NW; the others being the Colorado Building and Commercial National Bank, designed by Waddy Butler Wood. The semicolon should be a comma.
• Renaissance Revival-style Don't hyphenate; not an adjective.
• D.C. Court of Appeals' should be "Appeals's"
• The number of contributing properties increased from 20 to 38, two of which are modern buildings and thus non-contributing So there are contributing properties without contributing buildings. It might help to list them? The nom form says they are 901 and 1015 15th Street NW/1455 K Street. Some detail might be merited.

Sourcing and spot checks

• 3: This is one of two highly-used sources, the nomination form for the 2016 boundary expansion. The boundary map in front and the description in article are correct. Its descriptions of original-boundary structures are fairly sparse, with style info in the original nomination form. Y
• 6: Riggs National Bank nomination form mentions design by York and Sawyer. Y
• 13: Lifting of injunction in September 1984; beginning of demolition of Rhodes. Y
• 17 and 18: Two news articles on lawsuits around the Woodward Building, mentioning the The Committee of 100 on the Federal City involvement and court stopping demolition. Y

Earwig's high flagging of the nom form is mostly for official names: "National Register of Historic Places" and "the Fifteenth Street Historic District" but also phrasings that are banal, like "the Colorado Building at 14th and G Streets". I am not concerned

Images

There are 40 images on this page:

• The financial district boundaries, PD work on the CC-BY OSM map. Encouragement: I wonder if this could be made into mapdata and a more modern map than a still?
• The four body images are either CC-licensed or various flavors of PD (as age or government work). The Wire Building is my personal favorite, but many of these are gorgeous!
• The 35 images in the table are all CC-licensd, most taken by the nominator. Encouragement: Get a photo of the Walker Building.

Encouragement: Add alt text to all images. For the boundary map, you might add "See boundary description later in this article".

Thank you for reviewing. I know what you mean about the Walker Building, but there was a large crane in front of it because the neighboring building is a construction site. I plan on getting a photograph when all of that is done. I'm not sure what a mapdata is? I notice someone graciously added a map feature in the "List of contributing buildings" section. Does that work? I added alt text to the images in the body. Did you suggest adding it to the images in the table as well? APK hi :-) (talk) 21:18, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

@APK Yes on the images, though it's only an encouragement so it's not a GA hold. I'm not the best to help you in creating this since I don't know the source you'd have, but {{Maplink}} starts explaining what I'd love to see (but don't need to pass for GA). The copy changes were the blocker. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 23:24, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

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