Talk:Thomas Metcalfe (Kentucky politician)

Metcalf vs. Metcalfe

I'm seeing multiple sources related to the historic buildings associated with the governor, e.g. this for one, that use "Metcalf" spelling rather than the "Metcalfe" spelling predominant in this article. --doncram 17:22, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

I tried adding mention in the lede, that accounts use both spellings. --doncram 18:54, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Is the NRHP the only source you have for the alternate spelling? If so, that's OK, but I think it should be sourced in the lede. That's all. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 23:36, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Buildings section

I added and refined a section on Metcalf's buildings, mostly stone houses, a number of which survive and are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It's common in architect/builder articles to have section listing their works; it's unusual for a governor's article. Several of the items links are redlinks. I just created article on Thomas Metcalf House as that seemed most important to get started. If an editor here prefers not to have redlinks, or to reduce down the info here, articles for the rest could be started (and would provide address and other information now here, which could be dropped from here). I think the section adds appropriately to the article, that the amount of info is about right, and that its current placement late in the article is right, but I am willing to see any of this changed, as part of editing to keep this a good article. I'll keep this on my watchlist but please feel free to contact me at my Talk page if I might help, like with starting those articles. --doncram 18:54, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

As the primary author on this article, I think this is a great addition. I do a lot of politician articles, and I tire of writing "[Such and such] read law under [famous person] and graduated from [some law school] in [some year]. He was admitted to the bar in [some year] and commenced practice [somewhere]." Metcalfe is truly interesting for his pre-political stonework, which is cool. I might suggest, however, that we try to incorporate the "Buildings" section with the second paragraph under "Early life". I also think it might be worthwhile to move the list of his buildings to List of buildings constructed by Thomas Metcalfe because it is such an odd addition to a politician's article. We could mention only the most notable in the article and then link to the list article. (The list article might even eventually have a decent shot at WP:FL if you plan to create the rest of the redlinks and could get pictures of most or all of them.)

If you're good with this, we'll try to implement it over the next few days. I'm on vacation this week, and I'm not yet sure how ready my Internet access will be, but I'll check back no later than next Monday – hopefully before if our lodging has Internet access. Thanks for this very nice addition to the article. It might actually have a chance at WP:FAC when we're done! Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 23:36, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Glad that you like the addition. I see that chronologically the list goes with that early section, but then I and you both would want to reduce it, not include much, because it is too early in the article. I was hoping that later in the article, a full size list would work. But a separate list-article, with these tabulated, is another alternative. About creating/developing those articles, actually, i am happy to see that the NRHP nomination documents for many, perhaps all, of these, are available on-line, as here for Joel Fraizer House and here for corresponding photos (4). I am not local so cannot take pics, but it is gratifying to see that pics can be seen and linked from the articles, if not included right away. --doncram 23:50, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

OK, looks like I'm going to be able to access the Internet this week. I've created a first stab at the list article here. Take a look and see what you think. Obviously, we can fill in more stuff, but this gives you an idea what I'm thinking about. Acdixon ^{(talk • contribs • count)} 21:55, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Looks great. I'd maybe combine the 2 date columns, as done in List of Masonic buildings in the United States to reduce whitespace, and inline refs for the descriptions would be needed (to be copied in from linked articles), but it does look fine. To develop info about the currently-redlinked ones, starting articles with NRHP documents is probably the way to go. I can plug along opening them slowly, but would be happier adding NRHP infobox and NRHP docs to articles you started, if you don't mind opening them. You could start without those, or add NRHP infoboxes upfront using Elkman's generator (see wp:NRHPhelp for instructions on getting cut-and-paste ready draft articles with infobox and categories. I added NRHP nom text and/or photo links to a couple of these articles already, will plug along slowly. --doncram 22:05, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

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