Talk:Model factory and dwelling, The Rocks

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Name[edit]

I propose moving/changing the name of this article to Model Factory and Dwelling, The Rocks. The article itself demolishes the present name by acknowledging "No. 120 Gloucester Street has erroneously become known as the Housing Board Building. This would appear to be a mistake as there was a building in The Rocks built to house the Resumed Properties section of the Department of Public Works which was located at No. 16-18 Grosvenor Street..." Since there is only one former model factory in The Rocks, it is superfluous to include the address Gloucester Street in the title. Likewise, the description in the lede of "Model Factory and Workers Dwelling" needs to be shortened by removing the word "Workers". As stated in the article the original residential accommodation was limited to a three-bedroom flat on the second floor. In those days that would house a single family, probably that of the owner or manager of the premises. The accessible connected roof space was equipped as a laundry for the family. I should disclose that I know the building well, having lived there from 1964-1966, by which time the whole space (excepting the ground-floor lunch shop) had been converted to rentable bed-sitters. In 1965, a second front entrance on Essex Street was created for Reuben F Scarf's Recovery movement which then occupied the capacious basement. Bjenks (talk) 05:30, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK, no controversy, then, it's done. Bjenks (talk) 11:01, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Perceived copyvio[edit]

In editing this article I note that slabs of copy have clearly been cut and pasted from a NSW state government Statement of Significance. I will give some priority to replacing such content. Bjenks (talk) 14:47, 5 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I now see that a CC by 4 licence attaches to this copy, probably ruling out copyvio. However there are other issues, including excessive pasting of unencyclopedic minutiae, which still warrant a thorough rewrite of the article. Bjenks (talk) 15:49, 6 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]