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Former good articleGeorge Harrison Barbour was one of the Social sciences and society 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
DateProcessResult
April 9, 2020Good article nomineeListed
February 26, 2023Good article reassessmentDelisted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on January 31, 2020.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Michigan Stove Company, started by Jeremiah Dwyer, made the World's Largest Stove (pictured), a 15-ton replica conceived by George H. Barbour and designed by William J. Keep?
Current status: Delisted good article
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 Yoninah (talk) 14:55, 28 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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World's Largest Stove
World's Largest Stove
Source 1 -...the Michigan Stove Company, founded by Jeremiah Dwyer in 1872, decided to build a "Mammoth Garland" stove...
Source 2 -...credits George Barbour...with the idea for the stove ...it stands 25 feet high, is 30 feet long 20 feet high, weighs 15 tons.
Source 3 - ...William J. Keep designed the huge stove...
Source 4 - ...Michigan Stove Company, the company responsible for building the "World's Largest Stove."
Sources same as above
Sources same as above

Created by Doug Coldwell (talk). Self-nominated at 12:11, 7 January 2020 (UTC).[reply]

  • @Doug Coldwell: I'll review all five of these. Due to the number of nominations, I will not be using the reviewer template. Instead I will note each criteria for all of the articles.
  • All are new enough
  • All are long enough
  • All are sourced
  • All are neutral
  • No copyright violations found
  • No other problems, though you may want to look into adding some wikilinks.
  • All of the hooks need minor grammatical improvement. I suggest these:

GA Review

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 00:24, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Criteria

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1. Prose ✓ Pass

2. Verifiability ✓ Pass

3. Depth of Coverage ✓ Pass

4. Neutral ✓ Pass

5. Stable ✓ Pass

6. Illustrations ✓ Pass - caption

7. Miscellaneous ✓ Pass

Comments

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  • Anything you can add to the lead to make it a couple sentences longer? Would it be appropriate to mention that he got his start with the general store?
 Done - expanded lead. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 12:59, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • The other name in the infobox isn't necessary, nothing's spelled different and abbreviating the middle name is common enough for most people that it's not a notable other name.
 Done - removed this extra name.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 13:03, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Jane, his wife, is the first white" - I think this should be in past tense, since it's referring to an event in the past.
 Done "is" --> "was" --Doug Coldwell (talk) 13:14, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Back-to-back sentences in the early life section start with "His", can this be varied some?
 Done - corrected accordingly.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 13:24, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • See MOS:NUMERALS, numbers between one and nine should be spelled this (the 4 in the infobox is fine). Check the rest of the article, though.
 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 14:26, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Mid life is a bit non-standard for a heading in a biography. Since all of the content is about the Michigan Stove Company, I'd recommend renaming the section to Michigan Stove Company.
 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 14:33, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "and chairman of the board a couple of years after that." - Probably better to give the exact year or to say two years later. "a couple of" is a tad colloquial for encyclopedic tone (I've had similar phrases in my GA candidates called out for that), and anymore isn't always used as the exact meaning of two.
 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:01, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "He organized the Michigan Copper & Brass Company in 1907;[7] He was its president " - Either replace the semicolon with a period or the second he should be lowercase.
 Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:01, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "He was its president until 1914 and sold his company shares" - The meaning of "and sold his company shares" is unclear. Are you trying to indicate that he sold his shares in 1914 when he stepped down as president?
 Done - reworded accordingly. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:01, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "Barbour was also president of the Ireland & Mathews Manufacturing Company, the vice president of the Dime Savings Bank and First National Bank." - Grammar's a tad rough in this sentence. If the intended meaning was that he was president of I & M and was vice president of the two banks, replace the comma with "and". As of right now, the later half is a clause to nowhere.
 Done - fixed accordingly. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:05, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • "He was sick from pneumonia a week before he died" --> "He was sick from pneumonia for a week before he died", the other wording can have the implication that the pneumonia simply occurred a week before he died and didn't contribute to the passing.
 Done - corrected accordingly. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:19, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
 Done - corrected accordingly.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:22, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • "and chairman of the board a couple of years after that." - Citation needed, not supported by the next cited source.
 Done - news clip reference furnished for 1921.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:46, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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  • Caption of the stove - Can you add where the stove is currently displayed?
 Done caption = destroyed by lightning. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:53, 9 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Placing on hold, that's it for the first pass through. Hog Farm (talk) 02:16, 8 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment

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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]

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