Talk:William Aitken (architect)

Did you know nomination

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 15:50, 27 August 2024 (UTC)

( Comment or view )

( Article history links:

• William Aitken (architect)
• George W. Stoddard
• J. Lister Holmes
• John T. Jacobsen

)

• ... that William Aitken, William J. Bain, J. Lister Holmes, John T. Jacobsen, and George W. Stoddard collaborated in the early 1940s to design the nation's first racially integrated public housing development?

• Source: https://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/5319/ Pacific Coast Architecture Database, University of Washington.

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Oliver Gould Jennings House (x2), Template:Did you know nominations/Edwin Ford Piper, Template:Did you know nominations/Portrait of Cornelis van der Geest

Created by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 73 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 18:39, 21 August 2024 (UTC).

• I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:51, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice work. Some minor issues. First, should the hook specify that it is the first racially integrated public housing development to match what the sources say? Also, in J. Lister Holmes, I read In 1940, he was tasked by the Seattle Housing Authority to serve as the chief architect of the Yesler Terrace development, the first public housing development in the United States. That doesn't sound right, given that the hook is referring to it as the first racially-integrated one? Clear these two things up and it should be good to go. BeanieFan11 (talk) 02:25, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

• @BeanieFan11: oops! Thank you for catching the typo on Holmes and good fix with the hook. Corrected on both counts. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 16:16, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
  • BeanieFan11 (talk) 19:09, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

GA Review

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

---

This review is transcluded from Talk:William Aitken (architect)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Generalissima (talk · contribs) 23:31, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: MaranoFan (talk · contribs) 20:18, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Hello, once again!! I have been assigned to review this article at GARC. I didn't know users could nominate articles by others at the process. Still learning about it!--NØ 20:18, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

• Update: Quite small so I have just gone through and fixed the comma issues myself. I just wanted to know why it can't be separated into more sections? I am seeing a possibility for having Early Life, Career, and Personal Life as three different ones. Ping Generalissima.--NØ 13:38, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

  I'm just unsure if that'd make it more readable; I feel the prose works better as one big section with a personal life subsection. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 13:40, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

  Not really an issue when the content is great. ✓ Pass!--NØ 13:49, 5 October 2024 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.