Talk:Wyndham New Yorker Hotel/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Argenti Aertheri (talk · contribs) 08:29, 14 August 2023 (UTC)

GA review

Last updated at 2023-08-17 08:08:57 by Argenti Aertheri

See what the criteria are and what they are not

1) Well-written

1a) the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct

1b) it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation

2) Verifiable with no original research

2a) it contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline

2b) reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose)

2c) it contains no original research

2d) it contains no copyright violations or plagiarism

3) Broad in its coverage

3a) it addresses the main aspects of the topic

3b) it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style)

4) Neutral:

4) Neutral: it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each

5) Stable:

5) Stable: it does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute

6) Illustrated, if possible, by media such as images, video, or audio

6a) media are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content

6b) media are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions

Overall:

Comments:

Required

• "The fourth story contained an in-house medical department with four operating rooms, as well as a beauty parlor and a women's parlor.[6]" - That cannot be the right citation as it points to an article from 1929
  • The article details what the hotel was supposed to contain. I've changed this to "The fourth story was supposed to contain". Epicgenius (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
• "according to the New York Herald Tribune, was 'perhaps the deepest ever cut excavated in Manhattan'." - huh?
  • Oops, I have fixed the wording. Epicgenius (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
• "Upon the hotel's completion, it employed 17 manicurists, 43 barbers, and numerous multilingual waiters... The barber shop was one of the largest in the world, with 42 chairs and 20 manicurists." - two issues. One, nothing in the second sentence is in the citation, and two, how many manicurists?
  • I have removed the second sentence as it was both contradictory and not properly sourced. That sentence was from before I expanded the article. Epicgenius (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

For the record I'm reasonably sure they copied Wikipedia not the other way around, both due to the dates and because they accidentally copied an inline citation number.

Yep. I also noted this on the talk page. Epicgenius (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Optional

• "The New Yorker, A Wyndham Hotel is a mixed-use hotel building" - bit odd formatting wise
  • That is the official branding of the modern-day hotel, although the Wyndham New Yorker doesn't occupy the whole building. The common name is just "The New Yorker". Epicgenius (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
• "Meanwhile, Hilton Hotels had purchased the Statler Hotels chain in 1954, it owned large hotels in many major cities, including the New Yorker, the Roosevelt, the Pennsylvania, the Plaza, and the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City." - that's not quite a sentence
  • I have fixed this. Epicgenius (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
• "With 2,503 rooms, it would be larger than the nearby Hotel Pennsylvania, which at the time had the most rooms of any hotel in the city, as well as the second-tallest hotel in New York City, behind the Ritz Tower." - could definitely be clearer
  • I split the sentence. Epicgenius (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
• "which cost a total of $150,000 (equivalent to $2,556,000 in 2022)" and "the hotel spent $50,000 (equivalent to $609,003 in 2022)" are the only uses of the inflation template. I'm vaguely annoyed by the inconsistency, but constant use would definitely be worse, so I'm not sure what, if anything, should be done. Toss r=-3 on the second one though, the $3 is unnecessarily specific
  • I only added inflation templates for major figures, but I do see your point that it's inconsistent. I can go through the article later, perhaps putting inflation templates within their own footnotes, similar to what i did for Plaza Hotel. Epicgenius (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

Notes

• Found a better image for the lead while checking copyrights: [1]
  • Thanks. I've swapped one of the images out for this one. Epicgenius (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
• "The lowest stories are decorated with cast-stone blocks that contain floral designs. There are also some geometric designs on these stories" - any pictures?
  • I may have to look later. Epicgenius (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: I still prefer façade. In seriousness though, this one looks pretty good, a couple actual issues, but mostly just minor unimportant things. ~ Argenti Aertheri^(Chat?) 04:45, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the review Argenti Aertheri. I think I've addressed all your comments now. Epicgenius (talk) 15:44, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

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