Talk:5 Columbus Circle

Did you know nomination

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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:09, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

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U.S. Rubber Building at 5 Columbus Circle

• ... that the architect who was hired to remodel 5 Columbus Circle's (pictured) lower stories later expressed regret for the renovation? Source: NY Times February 27, 2000
  • ALT1:... that 5 Columbus Circle's (pictured) rounded corner was said to resemble "an alabaster version of the Flatiron Building"? Source: NY Times July 7, 2000
  • ALT2:... that tenants at the U.S. Rubber Company Building (pictured) have included the Society of Automobile Engineers, the United States Department of State, and the NAACP? Source: Various, in article

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sydney D. Bailey

Created by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 00:03, 5 November 2020 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: - pending
Overall: Awaiting QPQ C messier (talk) 20:10, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

@C messier: Thanks for the review. I've done a QPQ now. epicgenius (talk) 22:49, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

OK now, for the main hook. C messier (talk) 22:55, 11 November 2020 (UTC)

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:5 Columbus Circle/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: MWright96 (talk · contribs) 20:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Am going to review this article. MWright96 (talk) 20:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

Lead

• Wikilink stories to Storey in the first paragraph
• "sold the building in 1985 to John Phufas and John O'Donnell, and small renovations were undertaken on the building in subsequent years." - repetition of building in the same sentence

Site

• "and was "thoroughly lifeless"," - according to whom?
• Wikilink The New York Times in the second paragraph
• "and 224 West 57th Street just south of 5 Columbus Circle. 5 Columbus Circle was one" - try not to have the end of the preceding sentence begin the next one like this

Design

• "including the former Blair Building in the Financial District of Manhattan." - perhaps Manhattan's Financial District could be used to shorten the sentence a little?

Facade

• "Between 1958 and 2019," - Will need an extra reference for this statement since the source cited to it is from 2000
• "Between 1958 and 2019, there was a door at the corner of Broadway and 58th Street, leading to a ground-level banking space." - what happened to the door? Do we know?

Interior

• Central Park Tower is wikilinked there when it is already linked earlier in the article
• "The portion of the store within 5 Columbus Circle covers 8,000 square feet (740 m2) of 5 Columbus Circle's space," - close repetition of the building's name in the same sentence

Construction and early use

• "U.S. Rubber came to control 70% of the United States' rubber footwear market," - the % symbol is better of spelt out per MOS:PERCENT
• "equivalent to $80,973 in 2019)" - what is the equivalent for 2021?
• "the planned building was described as the tallest structure on Broadway north of Times Square." - described by whom?
• Who was August Heckscher for the uninitiated?

Later owners

• "The building was acquired by the West Side Federal Savings and Loan Association bank in 1951,[40] and the bank hired Herbert Tannenbaum" - repetition of the word "bank" in the same sentence
• "its headquarters in the building from 1967[44] to 1982.[45]" - the first citation in this sentence can be placed at the end

Critical reception

• "In 1989, Christopher Gray wrote for The New York Times:" - perhaps clarify that it's the building that is being talked about?
• Christopher Gray doesn't need to be linked here since he's already linked in the previous subsection

References

• Perhaps add the page numbers of the NYTimes articles?
• The author of Reference 17 can be wikilinked since the author in question is also linked in the prose
• Reference 49 "Nordstrom's Manhattan Flagship Store Officially Opens for Business in Central Park Tower" is missing the author
• Reference 50 "Check out the cocktail bar at Nordstrom's new Billionaires' Row flagship" is missing the publication date and author

Neat work. Will put on hold to allow the nominator to address or query the points raised above. MWright96 (talk) 10:55, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

@MWright96: Thanks for the comments. I have addressed all of these, except for the inflation issue, which uses the {{inflation}} template. Usually, the inflation template updates every time there is a full year of inflation data. Since the new year just started, neither the 2020 figures nor the figures for the first few days of 2021 are available. Epicgenius (talk) 16:42, 2 January 2021 (UTC)

@Epicgenius: Now promoting to GA class. MWright96 (talk) 18:24, 2 January 2021 (UTC)