Talk:New York Life Building

Merger proposal

This page needs to be merged with New York Life Insurance Building. Somehow, a fork has occurred. See Talk:New York Life Insurance Building. Slithymatt (talk) 19:58, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

It has been fixed; the other name at this moment is a disambiguation page and should be changed to redirect to disambiguation at New York Life Building (disambiguation) shortly. doncram (talk) 16:20, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

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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) 20:38, 5 April 2020 (UTC)

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New York Life Building

• ... that the New York Life Building (pictured) is topped by a six-story, 22-karat gold-tile roof? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/07/10/realestate/postings-new-york-life-renovates-a-4.1-million-facelift-for-a-150th-birthday.html
  • ALT1:... that the old Madison Square Garden was demolished to make way for the New York Life Building (pictured)? Source: NYCL p. 5
  • ALT2:... that the five basements of the New York Life Building include a subway station entrance and a massive storage vault? Source: NPS p. 5 NY Times 1929

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Frieda Nadig
• Comment: I can propose more hooks if necessary. ALT2 is pretty lame in particular.

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 16:57, 27 February 2020 (UTC).

Interesting building history, on fine sourcs, offline source accepted AGF, no copyvio obvious. The image is licensed, and no hook is needed because it speaks for itself ;) - I prefer short and sweet original hook. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:20, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

GA Review

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Reviewer: Kingsif (talk · contribs) 21:44, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

• History and talk clear
• Infobox good
• Images licensed well
• Earwig fine
• reliable sources, and a wide selection of coverage
• Inline citations look good
• Lead satis
• In the first sentence of the body, perhaps replace "it" with the name of the building?
  • Done
• Should 'louvered' have a wikilink?
  • Done
• bronze ornamental grills - should this be 'grilles'?
  • Done
• MSG hasn't been established as an acronym for Madison Square Garden before it's used along, could it be added next to the full name
  • Done, I guess, though the article already had the text "first Madison Square Garden (MSG)". epicgenius (talk) 22:45, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
• Should ref [57] be outside the bracket?
  • Done
• What is woolen firms?
  • Fixed
• Real giant candle?
  • An artificial one. epicgenius (talk) 22:45, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Overall

• on hold I may have missed some commas, but issues are minor. Kingsif (talk) 22:32, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
  • @Kingsif: Thanks, I have done these. epicgenius (talk) 22:45, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
    • Thanks, pass this one, too. Kingsif (talk) 22:48, 3 May 2020 (UTC)