Talk:Litchfield Towers

Litchfield Towers has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society 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.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
December 16, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
March 1, 2010	Good article reassessment	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 9, 2006.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Litchfield Towers is the largest and tallest dormitory at the University of Pittsburgh's main campus, at 22 stories in height and housing over 1,850 residents?

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Nicknames

Does anyone actually call Tower A, B, and C by Ajax, Bab-O (or Bounty), and Comet? I've gone to Pitt for 3 years, and I've never head this. The source is almost 50 years old! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.49.26.240 (talk) 05:00, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I can tell you that I heard those names used with sort of joking disdain regarding their appearance in the 1990s (obviously well prior to Wikipedia), although they weren't commonly referred to as such in every day speech. Those names have been verified by the cited source back to 1963, so even if not commonly used in talking about them, those names certainly were part of a long standing history/culture of the towers. CrazyPaco (talk) 05:47, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Murder in the Basement Laundry Room

Does anyone have info on the early 1980s murder that occurred in the laundry room in the basement that facilitated the need for the current lobby laundry room and security system? --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 23:41, 3 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

GA

Hello, I passed this article at GAC. It meets the criteria in my opinion. Two suggestions for further development: try to find more source material that is not from official University releases, and add another photo - maybe an interior view. Best of luck, DVD+ R/W 23:30, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

PGH Assessment

Matching prior GA assessment PadreNuestro 04:00, 11 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Architect?

this would be good to add. Also, believe it or not, I think the design of the towers won several awards. Those would be good to list as well.

This article is far better sourced than most dormitory articles I've seen. Well done! One thing that it is missing, however, is the name of the architect or firm that built these buildings. I think this would help to complete the article and perhaps enhance the subject's notability. Cheers, GentlemanGhost 18:12, 30 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA Reassessment

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Litchfield Towers/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

I will do the GA Reassessment on this article as part of the GA Sweeps project. H1nkles (talk) 17:42, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The lead needs to be expanded to summarize all aspects of the article per WP:Lead. Also information found in the lead should be found in the article. Most of the lead is not mentioned in the article at all.

Why is the image of Litchfield in the References section? This isn't the right place for the image.

photo relocated, images updated. CrazyPaco (talk) 03:43, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Are there any notable traditions that go on in these buildings during the school year?

I am not aware of any long standing notable traditions (that are supported by verifiable citations) directly related to the Towers, but that will be researched further. CrazyPaco (talk) 19:25, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What about notable people that lived in these buildings - references verifying this may be hard to find but would be necessary.

This would be nearly impossible to determine. No university sources are known to exist to be able to supply this information. CrazyPaco (talk) 19:25, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What prompted the building of these towers?

How much did it cost to build? There are quite a few items that should be covered to make the article comprehensive.

$14m...added. CrazyPaco (talk) 00:22, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is there an image of the interior of one of the dorms?

No, a request for such an image has been pending on the Pitt Wikiproject for some time. CrazyPaco (talk) 19:25, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The hours for the restaurants isn't really important information and it is a one-sentence paragraph, which is frowned upon.

Removed. CrazyPaco (talk) 19:25, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Many of your references don't have a publisher or an accessdate, these are minimum requirements for referencing websites.

Repaired. CrazyPaco (talk) 21:13, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Refs 1 and 9 are dead and need to be repaired.

Repaired. Note that two references are off-line, unarchived (on the internet) historical resources.CrazyPaco (talk) 21:14, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

There are several issues with this article that need to be addressed if the article is to maintain its GA Status. For your reference here is the GA Criteria. I will notify all interested editors and projects that I am putting the article on hold for a week pending work. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me on my talk page. H1nkles (talk) 18:08, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Many of these issues can be addressed, but it may take some time to do suitable research depending on available free time.CrazyPaco (talk) 19:25, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, the important thing is that someone is working on it. I can extend the hold if necessary. Just keep me posted. H1nkles (talk) 20:16, 22 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The issues appear to have been addressed I will keep at GA. Congrats. H1nkles (talk) 15:46, 1 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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