Talk:Montauk Point land claim

Montauk Point land claim has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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July 2, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 30, 2011.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Chief Stephen Talkhouse unsuccessfully filed three lawsuits between 1897 and 1918 against the Long Island Rail Road, and its predecessors in title, claiming Montauk Point?

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GA Review

Latest comment: 12 years ago12 comments4 people in discussion

This review is transcluded from Talk:Montauk Point land claim/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 23:05, 30 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

Jeffwang

I don't like the intro; it should have more info about the aftermath. I will put this on hold. --J (t) 03:08, 9 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

The requirement is to review Good Article Nominations against WP:WIAGA, not against personal likes and/or dislikes. Is this intended to be a serious review? Pyrotec (talk) 10:04, 10 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

Regardless, I have added more about the aftermath to the lead. Savidan 06:06, 12 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

Sorry, that wasn't a personal matter, it was serious. I will now put this back on track. --J (t) 03:06, 17 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

OK. I suspect that what you meant above was that the intro was not compliant with WP:WIAGA clause 1(b) in respect of WP:Lead. Pyrotec (talk) 07:31, 17 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

Is this review going to be continued? Ideally it should have been completed already. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 05:12, 30 June 2012 (UTC)Reply

Review

"Chief Wyandank Pharaoh, nephew of the famous Stephen Talkhouse who died in the same year (1879) that the tribe lost the last remaining vestige of their territory in the New York state courts," famous isn't needed here, plus the death-tribe connection sounds tangential on the surface; if it's not make it clearer.
"Circa, 1880" rm comma after circa
Add (LIRR) to the first use of Long Island Rail Road, this way it's easily followed. Took a bit to remember what LIRR was without it.
"or to have individual members bring the suit" or have sounds a bit better here.
"The Special Termsustained" add space
"and affirmed the Special Term, on" no comma needed here
- It is needed, because the entire phrase "and affirmed the Special Term" is set off by commas. Savidan 03:06, 2 July 2012 (UTC)Reply
"Road.[7] an area of 4,200 acres" An
"the Montauks were not longer a tribe" no longer
Allen Carruthers doesn't need to be linked twice; he is within three sentences.
Not sure why the "at" in the refs for page numbers is there. The page numbers after it is obviously where the cite would be; remove all those extra ats.
- This is per the Bluebook citation system used by this article. Savidan 03:09, 2 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

I'll put the article on hold and will pass it when the issues are fixed. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 03:39, 1 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for reviewing. Except as otherwise noted, I think you'll find these issues resolved. Savidan 03:09, 2 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

Looks good now, so I'll pass the article as a GA. Wizardman _{Operation Big Bear} 15:51, 2 July 2012 (UTC)Reply

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