Talk:Equitable Building (Manhattan)

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Review: July 1, 2020. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Equitable Building (Manhattan) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 June 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that New York City's Equitable Building, completed just before the 1916 Zoning Resolution, was described as being "more famous for what it caused than what it is"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Equitable Building (Manhattan).

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E.B. as the cause of 1916 regulations?[edit]

The article makes an impression that it was a major, if not principal, cause for the 1916 regulations. Carrol Willis (Form follows finance..., p.69) says the opposite: Equitable was completed when political support for the codes already was solid. In 1913-1915 NYC experienced a local overbuilding crisis and developers supported limitations regardless of any single project.

I'm not quite sure how to integrate this POV into article without ruining its current flow of content (most of it serving the other POV). Ideas? NVO (talk) 08:31, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

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 The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 06:38, 6 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The Equitable Building from ground level

... that the size of New York City's Equitable Building (pictured) was based on the height of its elevators? Source: Chappell, S.A.K. (1992). Architecture and Planning of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, 1912-1936: Transforming Tradition. Chicago Architecture and Urbanism. p. 104.
- ALT1:... that New York City's Equitable Building (pictured), completed just before the 1916 Zoning Resolution, was described as being "more famous for what it caused than what it is"? Source: White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot & Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.) p. 39
- ALT2:... that New York City's Equitable Building (pictured) was the largest office building in the world by floor area when it was completed? Source: New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S.; Postal, Matthew A. (2009). Postal, Matthew A. (ed.). Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.). p. 13.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Lim Ban Lim

5x expanded by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 14:38, 14 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Epicgenius, I just completed a review of this article, and I find that it meets all the criteria for DYK. This article is confirmed as 5x expanded by the requestor, the article is long enough, and its content meets core policies and guidelines. All three hooks are fewer than 200 characters, and their citations check out. The image is free, and is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. DYK moderators, I prefer ALT2. -- West Virginian (talk) 00:16, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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

Reviewer: HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk · contribs) 15:40, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It is reasonably well written.

a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
Overall: Pass
Pass/Fail:

Review[edit]

Design[edit]

Why is penthouse wikilinked so late when its already been mentioned in the previous paragraph?
- Fixed I moved the link up. epicgenius (talk) 19:52, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Features[edit]

Why is marble wikilinked so late when its already been mentioned?
- Fixed I moved the link up. epicgenius (talk) 19:52, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Landmark status[edit]

Are 3 references needed for "The building was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1978"?
- Fixed I combined the refs. epicgenius (talk) 19:52, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References[edit]

Reference 45 needs an author (Christian Salazar)
- Done
Is there any way to better clip reference #53? Is is hard to read the way it is currently clipped.
- Fixed I modified the clipping boundaries. epicgenius (talk) 19:52, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thanks, easy pass. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 20:02, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]