Talk:Austin Cornelius Dunham/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Vaticidalprophet (talk · contribs) 14:07, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Picking up this review; will return with comments. Vaticidalprophet 14:07, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Content notes

1. "We Relate" is user-generated and so rarely a reliable source. Is there an alternative source for He had HELCO make and market by 1908 the Dunham electric range he invented that was a broiler, cooker, and roaster, which relies on it?

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• Under Career, was a classroom where the workers learned English -- is there any possibility of expanding on this (perhaps in a footnote) with what national backgrounds these workers were usually from, for readers who might not be familiar with the immigration waves of the day?

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Prose notes

• Occupation and "known for" in the infobox should begin with a capital letter.

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• "Known for: electrical" is a bit hard to understand. Something like "Known for: Work in the electrical industry" would make more sense.

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• He was a manager, director, or trustee in several firms and organizations. He was involved with the textile industry and manufactured yarns and clothing jumps around topics somewhat, and the former is already clear from his list of occupations in the first sentence, which implies he managed/directed/was a trustee. It also buries the lede somewhat, as it doesn't mention his involvement with the electrical industry, which only comes up in the second paragraph. It might be better to cut these sentences entirely and merge the two paragraphs into one.

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• Martha (Née Root) Dunham -- "née" should be lower-case, and ideally made with the template {{nee}}, so people who don't know what the word means can click through and find out.

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• His first job after that flows better as "his first job after college".

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• became the first such concern to be illuminated by electricity -- "concern"?

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• The factory was the only one-floor mill constructed and at the time the largest textile mill worldwide. Dunham experimented at this mill with a storage battery and pondered the idea of producing hydroelectric power 24 hours a day and storing the electricity in batteries during the slow use times for using during high production times. Both these sentences are quite long and lack commas; I think they would flow better if they were broken up with them.

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• They built was a 300-ton lead-acid battery bank -- "they built was"?

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• Dunham acquired Hartford Electric Light Company (HELCO) in 1883 as a concern that was going out of business Still unsure about the contextual meaning of "concern".

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• Dunham was a pioneer in electrical application developments through his company from knowledge he acquired from electrical experimentation he had done in the previous four years with Barrows at Willimantic textile business. As above, a long sentence with no commas.

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• Dunham became interested in farming using trucks and promoted that in his retirement. There's something slightly odd about the way this sentence flows that I can't quite put my finger on. It might just need a comma after 'trucks'.

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• There he built houses and barns using concrete as the main construction material. Having this sentence start with 'there' feels very sudden. "At the farm, he built..." would flow better.

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1. When the United States entered into World War I he gave control of the farm land management to the Storrs Agricultural School. Should have a comma after "World War I".

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1. Dunham and his wife had a son named George, who died in 1873 when he was 13 years old, and a younger daughter named Laura. Specifying "younger" daughter is probably unnecessary.

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• Vaticidalprophet 03:32, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

•  Working Thanks for review. I'll start working on that today.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 10:31, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

• @Vaticidalprophet: All issues have been addressed. Can you take another look. Thanks. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 15:17, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

• Looking good. Have performed a few minor copyedits of my own, and passing. Vaticidalprophet 15:20, 2 July 2021 (UTC)