Talk:Old Appomattox Court House/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 20:16, 31 May 2020 (UTC)

Criteria

1. Prose  On hold

2. Verifiability  On hold

3. Depth of Coverage  On hold

4. Neutral ✓ Pass

5. Stable ✓ Pass

6. Illustrations ✓ Pass

7. Miscellaneous ✓ Pass

Comments

1.

• "In the 1800s, this structure gave the surrounding village the name, Appomattox Court House" - I'm not sure that the comma should be there.

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 10:41, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• "The 1865 surrender at the nearby McLean House was significant in ending the American Civil War" - Specify that it was the surrender of Lee's army. Also, but a qualifier in the later part, as it didn't entirely end the fighting, the Battle of Palmito Ranch occurred well after Appomattox.

 Done - reworded the lead to show the Conclusion of the American Civil War (an article I created). Check to see if it makes sense to you.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:12, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• "It was the second government public structure built after Appomattox County became official" - Became official is a bit idiomatic, can this be rephrased some?

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:38, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• "General Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia's surrender to Lieutenant General Grant" - Use Lee's first name, not all readers will know the proper context. Link Army of Northern Virginia and Lee, also link Lieutenant General to Lieutenant General (United States) and give Grant's full name and link him, too. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant are probably the best way to do that, the figures are best known that way.

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:53, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• After the links above are done, unlink Grant and Lee in the next paragraph

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:53, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• Link Palm Sunday

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:53, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• Description of old "court house" - Probably best to simplify to just Description

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:53, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• "is fifty feet wide by forty feet deep" - Use the {{Convert}} template with meters so it gives both. You'll have to use 50 and 40, though

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 12:51, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• "flanked by 12/12 double hanging sash windows" - What does 12/12 mean in this context? Same with 8/8 in later usages

 Done - Yes = replaced with better close-up picture to illustrate this. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 12:51, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• "It has three bays with a hipped flat-seam roof with wood trusses" - Link bays and trusses

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 12:51, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• Link hipped roof

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 12:51, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

2.

• Ref 4 is dead for me

 Done fixed --Doug Coldwell (talk) 14:05, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• Ref 9 is dead for me

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:32, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• Ref 1 goes to the stats home page, not the one for Appomattox Court House

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 13:33, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• Ref 2 also goes to a home page

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:32, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• Ref 5 needs the publisher

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:32, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• The Historical Marker Database is largely user-generated, a lot of the content on that specific page seems to come from a random guy from New Jersey. Is there a better source available for that content?

 Done - news clip ref --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:32, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• Ref 8 is dead

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:02, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• Like with the other Appomattox one, the source should just be the ones used in the article, and the three or four most relevant can become further reading

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:17, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

• Date added to NRHP needs cited

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:07, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

3.

• Visitation statistics are from 2009, those are outdated now

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:05, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

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7.

I'm going to be placing this one on hold. The refs are mostly dead, but that's pretty normal when the sources seem to have been first accessed in 2009. Hopefully it's an easy fix. Hog Farm (talk) 01:59, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

@Hog Farm: - All issues have been addressed. Can you take another look. Thanks. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:17, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

Ref 3 and 4 need publishers, and ref 1 needs the publisher and an accessdate. Hog Farm (talk) 20:23, 1 June 2020 (UTC)

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:32, 1 June 2020 (UTC)