Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Frank Matcham/archive1

The following is an archived discussion of a featured article nomination. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the article's talk page or in Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates. No further edits should be made to this page.

The article was promoted by Laser brain via FACBot (talk) 19 July 2019 [1].

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Frank Matcham

Nominator(s): Cassianto^Talk 15:14, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

The English architect Frank Matcham was the UK's most famous theatre designer during the late-Victorian/early Edwardian period, and was responsible for the design of nearly 200 theatres up and down the country. Sadly, the 1960s turned a lot of his theatres into rubble and dust and now only a handful survive, mostly in London. Next year will be the 100th anniversary of his death, so I've decided to bring his article up to scratch to pay homage to his architectural genius. It's received an excellent peer review and I'm now opening it up here for future FA consideration. Cassianto^Talk 15:14, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Support from Iridescent

Sources and images not checked; this is the version reviewed.

• Prose comments moved to talk

Support from Gerda

Per the peer review. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:59, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

• Comments moved to talk

Support from SchroCat

I had my say in the peer review and it's been strengthened since then, from what I can see. Nice work, and great to see you back at FAC. I hope the trolls don't cause another break. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 08:20, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments and the support. I hope so to, but all the time people go on about infoboxes (little do they know of our conversation a few weeks ago about this very subject and my siding towards putting an infobox here. Oh well!) only time will tell. Cassianto^Talk 13:52, 13 June 2019 (UTC)

• I'm a big supporter of the addition made since my support: it adds a lot to the article and to a reader's understanding. - SchroCat (talk) 15:20, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Support from Tim riley

Very happy to support now. This article meets the FA criteria in my view, and is an important addition to the online information about one of Britain's most loved architects. Mention Matcham to a theatre- or opera-goer and watch their faces light up. Thank you, Cass, for doing him justice, and in good time for his anniversary too! Tim riley talk 15:24, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

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Support from KJP1

Cassianto - Apologies for the delay, days were busier than I'd hoped, although the punting brought back great memories. Very pleased to add my Support; a fine article on a significant architect, even if his output is a little gaudy for my refined palate! And good to seeing you editing again, although you've returned at a rather tempestuous time for the 'Pedia. KJP1 (talk) 19:10, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

KJP1, no problem at all. Thank you very much for such a great set of comments and all the help with Pevsner and the others. See you soon, best regards. Cassianto^Talk 19:41, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

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Image review by Nikkimaria

• Suggest adding alt text
  • Alt text added to all images

• File:Frank_Matcham_by_Langfier.jpg: what is the first known publication of this image?
  • Nikkimaria, this is where I got the image from; it credits the photographer as being Langfier and the caption reads "Architect of the new building". Looking at the unedited copy at the link clearly shows it was cut from a publication, therefore it was published. The caption "architect of the new building" indicates that it was published prior to 1920 (Matcham's death) as he couldn't possibly be serving as the architect of a building thereafter. Matcham was born in 1854 and the photo is that of a mature man, not young and not aged. Matcham was 65 when he died in 1920 and had retired, certainly before 1914. Commons hosts a category of Langfier photos and the National Portrait Gallery has quite a few too. Cassianto^Talk 16:11, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Same with *File:Gaiety1.jpg. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:18, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Thanks NM, I'll get onto these. There will be a few more, not yet on there. Cassianto^Talk 18:32, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

• Both are now sorted, Nikkimaria. Please confirm if these are now okay. Thanks again for the review. Cassianto^Talk 21:09, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

• Yep, looks good. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:14, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

Sources review

• No spotchecks carried out
• All links to sources are working
• Formats:

• Ref 4: Publisher details required
  • Blitzed, not needed.
• Ref 29: I don't think there is a "University of Scotland"; the source is University of Glasgow
  • Switched. What was I thinking!
• Ref 33: page reference required. Do we have any further details for this publication?
  • Checked on British Newspaper Archive, now added
• Refs 58 and 60 appear to be identical
  • Not only were the refs identical, so was the bloody paragraph! Deleted.
• Ref 71: hyphen in number range should be ndash
  • Done.
• Ref 90: page reference required
  • Since added
• Bibliography, Barron 2010: "Oxon" is not a place – WorldCat gives London & New York as publisher location
  • Changed
• Earl 2008: For this ISBN, WorldCat gives publication year as 2005, and location as "Princes Risborough"
  • Changed both
• Kilburn 2002: WorldCat gives year as 2004
  • Changed
• ISBN mix-up: You have transposed the ISBNs for the Mercer-Walker and Wilmore books
  • Swapped over

• Quality and reliability: Overall the sources meet the requirements for quality and reliability as per the FA criteria.

Brianboulton (talk) 16:27, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

• • Many thanks for this, Brian, much obliged. Cassianto^Talk 20:53, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Support from RL0919

RL0919, your comments have been addressed. Thank you so much for taking the time to give this review, and for your adjustments, all of which I agree with. I very much appreciate it. Cassianto^Talk 08:19, 9 July 2019 (UTC)

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• Closing note: This candidate has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see WP:FAC/ar, and leave the {{featured article candidates}} template in place on the talk page until the bot goes through. --Laser brain (talk) 13:04, 19 July 2019 (UTC)

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