Talk:Consolidated Edison Building

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Review: March 20, 2020. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Consolidated Edison Building appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 December 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Consolidated Edison Building has been called one of New York City's most "beautiful and magnificent structures", with a "Tower of Light"?

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GA Review[edit]

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

Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 03:52, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comments[edit]

General comment - This is kinda splitting hairs, but you refer to the building as the Con Ed Building, but never directly indicate that it is frequently known by that name. You state that the Consolidated Edison is known as Con Ed, but it would probably best to throw in Con Ed Building as another one of the alternate names in the lead.

Done

Lead - Maybe it's just me, but "As such, Hardenbergh" doesn't seem to fit squarely with the previous sentence. My personal preference would be "As a result", but if you want to keep it as "As such", then do so.

Done

You mention and cite in the lead that the building was named a New York City designated landmark, but don't mention this in the text. It would probably be best to add this sentence to the main body of the text (probably to the end of the use section, right after where you talk about changing the lightbulbs in 2008) and move the citation to there.

Done I moved it to the architecture section. epicgenius (talk) 22:50, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox - Irving Place is mentioned in the article, but the exact address of 4 Irving Place doesn't seem to be cited anywhere.

Done Cited in the architecture section. epicgenius (talk) 22:50, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The height of the building does not seem to be cited anywhere.

Done

Wikilink rowhouses

Done

Use - "Four years later, Consolidated Gas became Consolidated Edison," - This a merger or a rename? If it's a rename, you might want to specify that, and a merger should definitely be mentioned (probably a rename given the context).

Done It was a rename and incorporation. epicgenius (talk) 22:50, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"1965-1966" - Needs an endash per MOS:DATERANGE.

Done

This one needs a thorough read over for the connections between two sentences. For example, "and the tower and facade were repaired from 1997 to 2001,[32] The light bulbs on the facade were replaced in 2008" - Either the comma needs to be a period or the last clause needs to start with "and the". There was another instance I believe where a new sentence didn't start with a capital letter, but I don't remember where that was.

I fixed the punctuation of both instances. I sometimes use a period when I should be using a comma, probably because of working with VisualEditor. epicgenius (talk) 22:50, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Architecture - Wikilink "quoining"

Done

References

Ref 21, "Second Tammany Hall Building Proposed as Historic Landmark", needs a publisher parameter
- Done
Ref 37, the press release - Is this only available as a paper copy? Is there any more information to distinguish this press release from others, like an author or something?
- Unfortunately it's no longer available online. So yes, this is now only available as a paper copy. epicgenius (talk) 22:50, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Images are all good, that's it. Hog Farm (talk) 21:42, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Hog Farm: Thanks for the review. I've responded to all your comments. epicgenius (talk) 22:50, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Passing. Hog Farm (talk) 23:13, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Turned into a cinema[edit]

The Academy of Music was rebuilt and continued to serve as an opera site until 1887, when it was turned into a movie theater

A/ Just no: there were no movie cinemas --- nor even movies --- until 1895, in Paris.

B/ From the Academy of Music page, the original Opera House descended into vaudeville in 1888, then became a venue for Victorians who couldn't get enough sermons in church; and labor union meetings.

C/ Then finally, across the road, in 1927, an elision of around 40 years:

On the south side of 14th Street across from the site of the opera house, a movie theatre opened in 1927 which took the name the Academy of Music. It was built as a 3,000-seat deluxe movie palace by movie mogul William Fox, and was designed by Thomas W. Lamb. It served as a venue for rock concerts in the 1960s and early 1970s, with its name being changed to "The Palladium" by promoter Ron Delsner in September 1976.

Claverhouse (talk) 05:42, 15 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]