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Former good articleWarren Antoine Cartier 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
October 12, 2021Good 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 June 21, 2010.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Warren Antoine Cartier was a neighbor of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone?
Current status: Delisted good article

Attribution

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Reference copied from William Rath to Warren Antoine Cartier, See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen () 20:50, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Warren Antoine Cartier/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 18:54, 30 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]


Comments - sorry it's taken a while to get to this, have been otherwise engaged...

  • Could link Michigan in the lead.
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  • "businessman famous for helping to develop the beginnings of" could this be "businessman who helped establish"?
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  • "Civil Engineer" Civil engineer.
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  • I don't think that "title" entry in the infobox is to be used for his various occupational titles.
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  • "Cartier is the third family" was, surely?? And feel to repeat his first name(s) on the first mention here.
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  • "is the third family member of Antoine E. Cartier and his wife Eliza Ann of a family of nine." repetitive use of family and what does "third

member" mean? Third child? First child after the two parents?

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  • Use the same pipe link for Antoine throughout.
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  • "Michigan when" comma after Michigan.
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  • "public schools" link as the meaning is different in the UK.
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  • "a Varennes business college near" that's an Easter egg link, take "business college" out of it.
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  • "at University of Notre Dame in 1884" which was where?
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  • "with a Civil Engineering degree" no need for the capitals. Could link.
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  • "from Indiana's University of Notre Dame" should have said that first time round!
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  • "He then got involved in" bit lacking in encyclopedic tone.
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  • "lumbering businesse where" missing an "s"?
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  • "where he was promoted to positions" gradually promoted, rather than all in one step I guess?
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  • "Ludington State Bank" caption is not useful, perhaps say "Cartier founded Ludington State Bank." or similar?
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  • "Bank of Fountain, Mason county" capital County?
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  • "Company - president" en-dash.
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  • "The city of Ludington embraced the newlyweds in a grand manner showering them" not encyclopedic in tone.
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  • "the Republican party," link?
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  • "Michigan's 26th Congressional District " any kind of link?
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  • "Republican presidential elector" likewise?
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  • "city recorder" thrice?
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  • "an expansion program" what's one of those?
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  • "varsity sports" and those?
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  • "asking if he would lhelp." -> "requesting his help."
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  • "10 acres (40,000 m2) site" add adj=on to the {{convert}} template.
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  • "field andgrandstand" space.
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  • "Because of his generosity the field was named the Cartier Field" maybe just merge and say " and it was named Cartier Field in his honor."

or something.

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  • " Benevolent & Protective " and, not &.
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  • "trustees). [1] " no space before ref.
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  • " (B.P.O.E.)" what is that?
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  • "Ludington # 736" and that?
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  • "married. The home was one " married which was one...
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  • "the Cartiers' home was at" -> "the Cartiers lived in"
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  • A lot on Edison which is only tangential to Cartier, suggest trimming that down.
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  • "died at 68 in" maybe "died age 68 in" (or in Brit Eng: "died aged 68 in").
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  • "kidney failure. He had a kidney ailment" bit repetitive.
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  • "Ludington, Michigan next" not sure we need to repeat that Ludington is in Michigan.
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  • Nor the name of his (only) wife.
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  • What does the watch company in see also have to do with Cartier?
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  • Ref 8 incompletely formatted, needs access date/publication date as a minimum.
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  • Ref 9, shouldn't p. y be p. 7?
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  • Check all newspapers.com sources are listed as newspapers.com, e.g. refs 13, 14 and 15 don't mention it.
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That's all I have. Apologies again for the delay. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 20:10, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for review. I'll get started on it tomorrow after a night's sleep.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:56, 8 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@The Rambling Man: All issues have been addressed. Can you take another look. Thanks. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:19, 9 October 2021 (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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This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 06:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

See also WP:DCGAR. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 06:39, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]