Talk:Clarendon Shopping Centre

Clarendon Shopping Centre has been listed as one of the Art and architecture good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: October 16, 2019. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from Clarendon Shopping Centre appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 November 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that A. N. Wilson described Oxford's Clarendon Shopping Centre when it opened as "the most grotesquely horrible building I have ever seen"?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Clarendon Shopping Centre.

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GA Review

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Reviewer: TenPoundHammer (talk · contribs) 22:12, 16 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

I'm interested in shopping malls but have seldom had the time to explore content on ones in other countries. This article was a fascinating look into how they differ in the UK. I think you've hit on all the major points and given a clear encyclopedic picture on the mall and its notability.

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists):
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism):
It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias:
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.:
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):
Overall:
Pass/Fail:
Again, good work. I made a couple tweaks, such as a removal of the word "recent" and the addition of the owner and developer to the infobox. There was very little to modify here, hence the short review. Good work.

DYK nomination

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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 00:48, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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The old Clarendon Hotel

... that the Clarendon Hotel (pictured) in Oxford, demolished to make way for the Clarendon Shopping Centre, had had a cellar dating back to the twelfth century? Source: "One would never have guessed what we now know, what I have tried to show in this article, namely that this building contained the remains of a twelfth century cellar", Pantin, Oxoniensia
- ALT1:... that A. N. Wilson described Oxford's Clarendon Shopping Centre, when it opened, as "the most grotesquely horrible building I have ever seen"? Source: The Times, 9 January 1984, "Oxford Diary: Expiring Dreams"
- ALT2:... that the oldest vaulted cellar in Oxford was demolished to make way for the Clarendon Shopping Centre? Source: "The earliest vaulted cellar in Oxford was under Woolworths in Cornmarket Street", Jennifer Sherwood and Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire

Reviewed: This is my first nomination, so I think I'm exempt? Would rather see at least one review through before trying my own.

Improved to Good Article status by YorkshireLad (talk). Self-nominated at 08:47, 17 October 2019 (UTC).[reply]

GTG: GA, neutral, nicely written. All 3 hooks check out & pic ok to use. First hook with pic, or ALT1 without, seem best. Johnbod (talk) 01:34, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I did wonder if ALT1 was too negative… YorkshireLad (talk) 08:14, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]