Talk:Oliver B. Shallenberger

Oliver B. Shallenberger was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 12, 2020	Good article nominee	Listed
February 26, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 27, 2017.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Oliver B. Shallenberger invented the first successful electric meter (pictured), predecessor to the modern meter used today?

Current status: Delisted good article

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German Wikipedia page[edit]

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.

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]
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)[reply]

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

GA Review[edit]

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)[reply]

Criteria[edit]

1. Prose ✓ Pass

2. Verifiability ✓ Pass

3. Depth of Coverage ✓ Pass

4. Neutral ✓ Pass

5. Stable ✓ Pass

6. Illustrations ✓ Pass

7. Miscellaneous ✓ Pass

Comments[edit]

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)[reply]

Link flagship

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

"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)[reply]

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

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

George Westinghouse is a duplink

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

"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)[reply]

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

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

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)[reply]

2.

Ref 12 is dead

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

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)[reply]

3.

Is cause of death known?

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

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7.

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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

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

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

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment[edit]

This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]