Talk:James Reuel Smith
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Cwmhiraeth in topic Did you know nomination
 | A fact from James Reuel Smith appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:22, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
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James Reuel Smith, photographic self-portrait
- ... that the Fin de siècle photographer James Reuel Smith (pictured) rode his bike all over Manhattan and the Bronx to photograph the natural springs and wells of New York City before they disappeared? Source: The New York Historical Society: [[1]] and [[2]]
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... that the historical springs and wells of New York City were photographed by James Reuel Smith (pictured) before they vanished under the concrete of the rapidly growing city?(same citations as above) - ALT2
... that in the late 19th C. James Reuel Smith (pictured) travelled by bike to photograph nearly 100 springs and wells of New York City before they were buried beneath the concrete of the rapidly growing city?(same citations as above) - Comment: This is my 4th DYK nomination (first two nominated by Gerda Arendt, second two self-nominated) I don't think I officially have to do a QPQ review yet, although I did review the DYK Mikiko (choreographer) some time ago.
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Created by Netherzone (talk). Self-nominated at 17:17, 2 July 2021 (UTC).
Interesting life and work, on fine sources, offline sourcs accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. The image is licensed, and a good illustration. I dropped the year range from the longish caption which is a duplicate to fin de siècle. I am not sure we need links for springs and wells. - In the gallery: if these are the original titles of the photographs, they should be italic; if not we could drop the repetitious "unidentified". --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:45, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
- Gerda Arendt thank you for reviewing the article! I've unlinked the words, spring and well. The titles have been italicized - they are long but these are the correct titles per the NY Historical Society archive. Smith took meticulous notes, so it is not surprising his titles were so detailed. Netherzone (talk) 16:53, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
