Talk:Graybar Building

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 Yoninah (talk) 22:38, 28 November 2019 (UTC)

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• ... that sculptures of rats outside the Graybar Building, near Grand Central Terminal, were included to signify New York City's role as a "great transportation centre"? Source: "Rats". The New Yorker. September 9, 1933. p. 10.
  • ALT1:... that New York City's Graybar Building was built above an active railroad track serving Grand Central Terminal? Source: "Track Is Still In Use As Skyscraper Rises". The New York Times. August 29, 1926
  • ALT2:... that upon completion, the Graybar Building was characterized as the world's largest office building, with 1,350,000 sq ft (125,000 m²) of office space? Source: Commercial Real Estate; For Graybar, Restoring a Lost Luster. The New York Times. April 1, 1998

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Iraj Castle
• Comment: While I primarily worked on this in my sandbox, Ɱ previously wrote some of the content for the Graybar Passage section.

Converted from a redirect by Epicgenius (talk) and Ɱ (talk). Nominated by Epicgenius (talk) at 15:29, 20 October 2019 (UTC).

• The article is neutral, meets the required length, and is sufficiently referenced. Article was created/redirected on the same day as this nomination. QPQ looks good. Hooks are all interesting and sourced (AGF on offline sources); I think the main hook is the most interesting, but any would work fine. Good to go! – Rhain ☔ 08:55, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 02:30, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Criteria

1. Prose ✓ Pass

2. Verifiability ✓ Pass

3. Depth of Coverage ✓ Pass

4. Neutral ✓ Pass

5. Stable ✓ Pass

6. Illustrations ✓ Pass

7. Miscellaneous ✓ Pass

Comments

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• "420-430 Lexington Avenue"- Use an endash
  •  Done
• Wikilink Lexington Avenue in the site section
  •  Done
• Should "the project became the Graybar Building." be "the project became known as the Graybar Building"?
  •  Done
• In the portals section, you state that there were three entrance portals, but that only two of them were actually used as entrances. Either this is a contradiction, or I'm misunderstanding something.
  • Yes, there were three entrance portals, one of which was never opened to the public. epicgenius (talk) 00:57, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
• Graybar is a duplicate link
  •  Done
• " A writer for The New Yorker stated in November 1927 that the building "probably the largest something, or the highest something, or the most capacious something, in the world – but we didn’t know what"." - Ungrammatical, a change needs to occur (likely at the juncture where the direct quote starts).
  •  Done "The building was..." epicgenius (talk) 00:57, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

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• Stuff in infobox not cited in the article: Art Deco, address, engineer, NYCL reference no.
  •  Done
• Is "Bookworm History" reliable? It looks a touch blog-ish
  •  Done Removed it.
• City Room ref gives me a 503 error
  • That is weird. It works fine for me. Though sometimes this site has periodic outages. epicgenius (talk) 00:57, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
• The Grand Central Directory (ref 58) is a 404 deadlink
  •  Done
• The New Yorker "Rats" ref should have a subscription required parameter
  •  Done

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• Trumbull is redlinked down in the Portals section, but he's first mentioned up in the Planning and Construction section. If the redlinks are kept, they should be at the first mention
  •  Done

That's it, @Epicgenius:. Hog Farm (talk) 00:16, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

• @Hog Farm: Thanks for the review. I have fixed all of these. epicgenius (talk) 00:57, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

Passing. Hog Farm (talk) 01:33, 31 March 2020 (UTC)