Talk:George W. Hotchkiss

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October 19, 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 November 14, 2019.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that George W. Hotchkiss published the world's first lumber journal, the Lumberman's Gazette?

Current status: Delisted good article

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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) 20:40, 7 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... that George W. Hotchkiss published the world's first lumber journal? Source: He published the world's first lumber journal.

Reviewed: Walk-in-the-water (steamboat)

Created by Doug Coldwell (talk). Self-nominated at 10:11, 6 October 2019 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, long enough. QPQ present. Hook is interesting and cited in article. I did some minor copyediting as well. Looks good to me. Raymie (t • c) 03:08, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Bibliography

Doug Coldwell — Just thought I'd mention that if a source in the bibliography, which, btw, is impressive, is not used in the cites it shouldn't be there. It's no royal issue with me, but I've seen other editors yank them in such a case, so we might want to put any source not used in the cites in a Further reading section. When used in the actual cites we can always move them to the Bib' from there. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 04:00, 6 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gwillhickers - Can you give me an instance in this article where I ever added a source in the listing of the bibliography, but never used it in the cites. I don't recall that I ever did that.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 12:01, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

My mistake. It was a cursory observation. I had assumed the three different Illinois State Historical Society sources in the citation section were the same source. Apologies for overlooking the year date designations. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 19:04, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Gwillhickers Apology accepted. No problem. If you don't have already the Harv Error tool is handy for this. It shows such a problem in bright red and one would know of such a mistake before you clicked Publish changes. I happen to have it installed and notice my mistake before I Save my edit.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:18, 9 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

lumber

Hey, Kablammo, any objection to leaving lumber linked? I linked it because apparently it's used in North America, with timber being used in other English-speaking countries? I not so concerned about native speakers of BrEng, more for those whose BrEng is not their first language. --valereee (talk) 17:15, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Valereee, no objection from me. That was the one I thought may be questionable, and your explanation resolves it. Best wishes, Kablammo (talk) 17:26, 11 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Same publication

@Doug Coldwell: — I noticed in the lede where it says Hotchkiss founded "the Lumberman's Gazette, the world's first lumber journal." Wasn't he the co-founder, along with William B. Judson? In the Northwestern Lumberman article it says this newspaper changed its name to the Lumberman's Gazette, so referred to in this article. Both articles mention an 1872 founding. I was thinking a link in this article to the Northwestern Lumberman would be appropriate, and that Hotchkiss should be mentioned as the co-founder, and linked, in the Northwestern Lumberman article. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 23:44, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Gwillhickers: - Sounds correct to me. If you could make those changes I would appreciate it. I'll be out of town for a few days and won't have access to computers. Thanks. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:54, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Done — My pleasure. I also made a REDIRECT for Lumberman's Gazette to the Northwestern Lumberman -- Gwillhickers (talk) 20:36, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment

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]