Talk:Oliver B. Shallenberger

German Wikipedia page

The following pictures are available on the German Wiki page for Shallenberger, but I don't know how to import the pictures to the English page for Shallenberger.

Shallenberger

Please import these pictures of Shallenberger and his watt-hour meter. Greensburger (talk) 20:23, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

After a few run-ins with the copyright cops, I'm not even going to try to transfer these here. These files aren't on Commons, appear to be on the German Wikipedia under fair-use, and the combination of quirky German translation by Google and my lack of copyright law expertise has me cowed. Perhaps someone will find the originals of these images in the Library of Congress (that's a very large place to search) and upload them here as either free images or cop-resistant fair use images. --Wtshymanski (talk) 22:56, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

• I have asked the Library of Congress and they are working on it. Will get back to y'all on this later.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 16:22, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
• I got the Shallenberger picture from a 1914 publication (public domain if before 1923). I got Shallenberger's meter from the Library of Congress. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 10:55, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
  

 Done 7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:24, 13 December 2017 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Oliver B. Shallenberger/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 20:50, 10 May 2020 (UTC)

Criteria

1. Prose ✓ Pass

2. Verifiability ✓ Pass

3. Depth of Coverage ✓ Pass

4. Neutral ✓ Pass

5. Stable ✓ Pass

6. Illustrations ✓ Pass

7. Miscellaneous ✓ Pass

Comments

1.

• It's fine to use alternating current and AC, but you just need to put (AC) after the first mention of alternating current, to make it clear the abbreviation means the same thing.

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:21, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

• Link flagship

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:21, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

• "Shallenberger ran the experiments of alternating current apparatus which had been imported from Europe." - This doesn't quite read right, can you rephrase this?

 Done - rewrote accordingly. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:27, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

• "resign from the Westinghouse company but he continued" - Should company be capitalized?

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:27, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

• George Westinghouse is a duplink

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:27, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

• "One thing led to another and eventually a few weeks later he built the first alternating current measuring meter." - Not quite encyclopedic tone here

 Done - reworded accordingly. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:39, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

• "In 1888 Elihu Thomson patented a walking-beam meter," - Comma after 1888

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:29, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

• Is there a way you can combine the Later life and death and Personal life sections? Those are both super short sections.

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:29, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

2.

• Ref 12 is dead

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:46, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

• Look on WorldCat for the OCLC numbers for the pre-ISBN sources. For instance, here's the link for Jordan 1914 [1]. The OCLC is in the details section

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 10:25, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

3.

• Is cause of death known?

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 13:33, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

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• I don't think the hatnote is necessary. The first and middle name of a person being the same as the first and last name of another isn't really a confusion point. For instance, there's no hatnote to George Washington at George Washington Carver.

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:32, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

• Consider adding an infobox person. This isn't a GA requirement, but it would be nice.

 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:32, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

Placing on hold. Hog Farm (talk) 16:43, 11 May 2020 (UTC)

@Hog Farm: All issues have been addressed. Can you take another look now. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 13:33, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

Passing. Hog Farm (talk) 14:59, 12 May 2020 (UTC)

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