Talk:Great Vancouver Fire

Great Vancouver Fire was nominated as a good article, but it did not meet the good article criteria at the time (July 21, 2020). 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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Nominated for DYK[edit]

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: rejected by Flibirigit (talk) 20:11, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that shortly after Vancouver was incorporated as a city it was destroyed by the Great Vancouver Fire? Sources: Vancouver is ashes Lisa Smith 2014 "with explosive fury, the fire sweeps through Vancouver's city core, devouring every building in its path.", James Matthews Volume 1 Vancouver Historical Journal 1958 p.32-42, peititon for incorporation p. 32-33, timeline for passing of incorporation bill p.35 [1]
- ALT1:... that shortly after Vancouver was incorporated as a city it was destroyed by the Great Vancouver Fire which started as two land clearing fires?
- ALT2:... that shortly after Vancouver was incorporated as a city it was destroyed by the Great Vancouver Fire which reduced the city to "ashes"? Source: telegram sent from Vancouver Mayor MacLean to the Canadian Prime Minister June 13, 1886 "Our city is ashes three thousand people homeless can you send us any government aid" found in Vancouver is ashes Lisa Smith 2014

Reviewed: Neel Kolhatkar 1929–1930 Psittacosis Pandemic

5x expanded by Clemlivy aikensnaps (talk). Self-nominated at 01:01, 30 May 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Expansion is new enough, long enough, and well-written. Good sources. To condense the hook I'm proposing an ALT3: "... that the 1886 Great Vancouver Fire reduced the new Canadian city to "ashes"?" Also I'm a new nominator, and would like a second opinion. Cstickel(byu) (talk) 13:53, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

New reviewer needed to check ALT3, and also to give a second review, which does not mention neutrality or close paraphrasing/copyvio checks. BlueMoonset (talk) 16:03, 20 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I was asked to have a look at this on my talk page. This is technically an automatic DYK fail because of the maintenance tag. Having no page numbers for any of the cited books/journal articles makes it impossible to verify anything because no one is going to (or should be expected to) read a whole book looking for the cited material, let alone a whole bibliography. That really needs to be fixed before anything else can go forward here. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 14:06, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Inserting maybe/no icon as per comments above. Flibirigit (talk) 09:10, 22 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Considering PMC's note, and also that the nominator is a student in a course and has not edited since posting this on May 30, I am marking this nomination for closure as unsuccessful. Yoninah (talk) 18:59, 5 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Rejecting nomination. Hopefully I can become GA class and be nominated again later. Flibirigit (talk) 20:11, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article rewrite[edit]

I've rewritten this article for my uni assignment. I'm open to any feedback/changes/discussion you may have! Clemlivy aikensnaps (talk) 08:52, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled[edit]

I didn't strain myself on this one and just took info from the jubilee booklet. The map contradicts the text by pinpointing the starting point west of Cambie, not between Cambie and Main. I think the Regina Hotel, marked on the map, survived as well. More research needed. bobanny 01:38, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Who Saved Them?[edit]

The Sḵwxwú7mesh did. I need to find some more sources, but my people do talk about how when the c city caught on fire, the indigenous at eslha7an (North Vancouver) came over in canoes and save a number of settlers from the fire. Most people don't know this. The newspaper back then did have pictures and an article about the canoes coming over. I'll look but if anyone can point me in the director, thanks! 24.82.147.131 17:30, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's not hard to believe. Whatever boats were already on the Vancouver side would've been used as well. A source and any details would be awesome if you can find one. bobanny 22:56, 24 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Great Vancouver Fire/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Eddie891 (talk · contribs) 16:27, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I can review this shortly. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 16:27, 13 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Book sources need page numbers
Per WP:LEDECITE, material that is cited in the article doesn't need to be cited in the lede

Given that you haven't edited in several months, Clemlivy aikensnaps, I'll give one or two weeks for these issues to be resolved before putting the effort into a full review. If you intend to respond to comments as they come up, please let me know. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 14:27, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate you taking the time to review. I dont plan on adding page numbers to the book references as that would take a long time. Maybe one day someone will take on this task and the article could be promoted to GA status. Thank you for your time. Clemlivy aikensnaps (talk) 23:45, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Clemlivy aikensnaps, Understandable, Thanks for all the work you've done-- the article is certainly a lot better even if page numbers are lacking. I am failing this nomination, however. Best, Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 13:05, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]