Talk:Brunel University lecture centre

Brunel University lecture centre was nominated as a Art and architecture good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (July 29, 2024, reviewed version). There are suggestions on the review page for improving the article. If you can improve it, please do; it may then be renominated.

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A fact from Brunel University lecture centre appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 July 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Brunel University's lecture centre has been described as "imposing" and "frightening", but also as "an expressive centrepiece" and "a brutalist classic"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Brunel University lecture centre.

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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 Sohom Datta talk 03:44, 4 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Brunel University's lecture centre in 2024

... that Brunel University's lecture centre (pictured) was planned to be part of one of the biggest engineering teaching complexes in Europe?

Source: "(The university's new campus) was to be one of the largest engineering teaching complexes in Europe... The lecture centre formed part of the first phase of the new campus"

ALT1: ... that Brunel University's lecture centre (pictured) has been described as "imposing" and "frightening", but also as "an expressive centrepiece" and "a brutalist classic"? Source: "imposing", "frightening" and "a brutalist classic", "an expressive centrepiece"
Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dagmar Skálová
Comment: I personally prefer ALT1.

Created by Suntooooth (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.

Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 22:19, 14 June 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Review underway... Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 16:02, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Created (moved from draftspace) on 14th June.
Long enough, and graded at B-class.
Decent sources: NHLE listing particulars (extensive), a journal article with more than a passing mention, book about the university (I have checked this via WebArchive) and a couple of newspaper pieces. No issues around notability.
QPQ review has been done and is awaiting action from the article's nominator. (Edit to say that this is one of the DYK nominations affected by the blocking of the article nominator Evrik as detailed here, which I hadn't realised until checking WT:DYK today. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 12:30, 18 June 2024 (UTC))[reply]
Re. The lecture centre was finished in 1966 or 1967: surprising that Historic England has not been able to pin down the completion date, but I have checked the listing particulars and other sources and it is indeed the case.
Image is suitably licensed, was taken by the article author, is used in the article and looks fine at thumbnail size.
All statements are sourced. No issues with neutrality.
No copyvio or close paraphrasing noted. There are a couple of phrases which cannot really be reworded without losing their meaning.
Hooks: both are fully verified. ALT1 is better; I wonder if it might be worth including a reference to the building's use in A Clockwork Orange to grab attention. Something like: ...that Brunel University's "imposing" and "frightening" lecture centre (pictured) featured in A Clockwork Orange? (another editor would need to sign off that hook).

Happy to mark this as verified. Note to prep builders: see my comment above on a possible ALT2 hook which I have suggested. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 21:09, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

Unsuccessful. asilvering (talk) 03:35, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:Brunel University lecture centre/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Suntooooth (talk · contribs) 21:27, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: asilvering (talk · contribs) 03:20, 29 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be quickfailing this article for now, for being a long way from meeeting the GA criteria, particularly #3, broad in coverage. The coverage is so lacking here that the references don't show a WP:GNG pass for the article. The Guardian coverage is two sentences. Londonist has barely a paragraph. There's some coverage in Topping, but not the 15 pages implied by the citation. Imani and Imani is a paragraph (and doesn't look like a reliable source, either). There are no citations in the article contemporary to the building's construction.

Finding more sources with significant coverage will help you expand the article so that it means criterion 3. In particular I suggest that you look for information on the construction of the building, which is presently absent from the article, and anything you can find about the use of the building (other than for filming) between when it was built and when it was listed.

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.