Talk:Justus Smith Stearns

Justus Smith Stearns was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
March 7, 2021	Good article nominee	Listed
February 26, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on November 3, 2010.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Justus Smith Stearns built the first all electric sawmill in the United States?

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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Justus Smith Stearns/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 10:08, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

J.S. Stearns --> J. S. Stearns

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 18:43, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

As "lumber baron" redirects to "business magnate", it's worth linking lumber in the lead to tell us specifically what he was into.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 18:51, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"He was involved" was also. Or ditch "other".

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 18:51, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Stearns, as a ..." sentence has lumber three times!

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 18:51, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"lumber baron" is linked twice in the lead.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:01, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Pine King in the lead and "Pine King" in the body.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:01, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"He was involved in..." you already said what he was involved in in the first para of the lead.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:01, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You link Michigan in the lead but none of the other states.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:09, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"of a boating" in a boating accident.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:09, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"at around" at not needed for me.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:09, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"who had this tragic death at such an early age" unnecessary commentary.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:09, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No need to link common words like "teen"

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:13, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Miss Paulina Lyon" is "Miss" needed?

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:13, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Pauline's" - Paulina?

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:13, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Convert the miles for the people reading this who live in a metric world.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:36, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Setback is just a single word.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:36, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Several locations are overlinked: "Ludington, Michigan", ", Stearns, Kentucky", "Bagdad, Florida", "Odanah, Wisconsin", "Mason County, Michigan" etc.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:36, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

" it had 30 men " employed.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:36, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Link board foot.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:36, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Pere Marquette Railroad." seems to be called Railway.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:36, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"one of the top businessmen" in what sense?

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:40, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

" Yamacraw and Oz." what are these?

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:53, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"bankruptcy.[6][3]" order.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:53, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"banking interests in implementing new banking" repetitive.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:07, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Stearns built in 1902 the first all electric..." -> "In 1902, Stearns built the first all-electric...":

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:07, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Refs, no spaced hyphens, per MOS:DASH.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:07, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Check date formats are consistent in refs.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:47, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Page ranges also need dash not hyphen.

Not Done - don't know how to do. Can you help? Thanks. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:47, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:00, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Ref 10 should be "pages" not "page".

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:47, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ISBNs should be consistently formatted.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:47, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

His death and death date etc appear to be missing from the article prose.

Done --Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:47, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

That's it for now, on hold. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 11:13, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Working Thanks for review. I'll get working on the issues.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 11:24, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: All issues addressed. ~~One not done.~~ Can you take another look. Thanks.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 20:47, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW - It so happens that Professor Nagle authored this book in 2015 based on the Wikipedia article I created in 2010 on Justus Smith Stearns. He told me he is working on another history book about Eber Brock Ward that he is basing off the Wikipedia article I have 91% authorship, that I did a 10 times expansion on 29 October 2010. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:40, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Happy with the article now so promoting to GA, good work. The Rambling Man (Stay alert! Control the virus! Save lives!!!!) 12:00, 7 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment[edit]

This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]