Talk:John Hawks (architect)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron talk 08:03, 8 November 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that John Hawks was the first professionally-trained architect to stay in the Thirteen Colonies?

• Source: https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/hawks-john Carraway, Gertrude S. (1988). "Hawks, John". NCpedia. State Library of North Carolina.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Arndt Jorgens
• Comment: My apologies for being two days past the deadline. I was traveling and forgot to nom this until now.

5x expanded by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 86 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 00:00, 13 October 2024 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The article is new enough and long enough. In regards to your comment above, it looks like this actually was nominated without seven days of the 5x expansion. The hook is interesting and cited. No copyright problems. There's probably not a picture of him out there anywhere. I didn't see anything on a quick search. Approving the hook. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 14:12, 30 October 2024 (UTC)

GA Review

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

Nominator: Generalissima (talk · contribs) 04:45, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Crisco 1492 (talk · contribs) 13:38, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

Image review

• File:Main Building Side.jpg - Licensing is correct, caption looks good
• File:NewBernHouse1.JPG - Licensing is correct, caption looks good
• File:Chowan County Courthouse 1767.JPG - Licensing is correct, caption looks good

Prose review

• Two-storey (alt text) - I believe two story would be correct in American English (which I'd assume this would use, given the strong association with the United States). Two-storied may also work
  • Fixed. - G
• I've made some edits, which I don't think were controversial, but please review
  • Look good to me. - G
• I'm seeing that a large percentage of sentences start with "He". Might be worth recasting a few
  • Changed a few. - G
• I see that American Revolution is left unlinked, but Philadelphia (another very prominent subject) is linked. Personally, I'd link the Revolution
  • Fixed. - G

Source review

• Only reviewing this source, as it covers nearly all the content.
  • Source covers everything for which it is used. No close paraphrasing found.
  • The fact that the project ended up costing thrice its budget may be worth mentioning, especially since the cost was a source of contention
  • Mentioned it. - G
  • Earwig gives 12.3%; reviewing the flags, everything looks correct
  • Not a GA requirement, but I would recommend archiving the online sources to future-proof the article and prevent link rot.

Conclusion

• The article is done very well. Just a few minor quibbles. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:38, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
  • @Crisco 1492: Thank you very much! I think I got to everything. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 16:39, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
    • Awesome! I'm happy to pass this article.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 17:18, 26 October 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.