Talk:Glen Rock (boulder)

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Reviewer: Mujinga (talk · contribs) 16:33, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Review

• I like rocks! I'll take this on for review, comments coming today or tomorrow Mujinga (talk) 16:33, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Good Article review progress box WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

• Earwig flags up no copyvio

• All three images are relevant and appropriately licensed. It's not a GA passs/fail issue but it would be great if terms of accessibility if they all had alts

• Infobox is ok, could be expanded to add things like dimensions and the New Jersey State Office of Historic Sites designation.

• Regarding broadness, no news since 1964 about the rock?

• No original research, spotchecks on references are fine, sources are reliable, ref layout is to GA standard. Article is neutral and stable

Prose

• Per
  MOS:LEAD
  , everyhting in the lead should summarize what is in the text below in the body. Right now that's not the case and if you moved stuff down, then the references could be in the body not in the lead. The lead doesn't normally have references.
• New Jersey Highlands
  can be wikilinked
• "Pamackapuka" should be either Pamackapuka or "Pamackapuka".
•  "Native Americans" could be wikilinked to one of the more specific articles and in any case, yo've mentioned the Lenape in the lead and they should be mentioned here as well.
• "After the arrival of colonists to the region, the rock was used as a landmark on colonial trails" - two "colon-"
• "In 1894, citizens of Ridgewood, New Jersey " - this sentence can be moved up into the previous paragraph
• "In order to properly grade streets near the rock, soil was gradually excavated, revealing the Glen Rock's massive size" - this does faithfully report what the source says, but I don't know what it means to grade streets - maybe an Americanism?
• In "1910–1912 excavation and construction" the two paragraphs could be merged
• "the Glen Rock to honor the veterans" - "the Glen Rock to honor the local veterans" ?

Overall

• Thanks for the interesting read. I'm putting this article on hold for seven days to allow the comments made above to be addressed. Let me know if something needs clarifying. It's mainly prose, fixing the lead and a question on broadness. Mujinga (talk) 18:59, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  @Mujinga: Thank you for the feedback. I think the edits should directly address all your concerns except for three: expanding the infobox, the use of "coloni-" twice in a sentence, and post-1964 history. The reason for the first is that the infobox template lacks fields for size and landmark status, though I would be willing to create custom fields if you believe that doing so would be proper in this case. The reason for the second is that I'm having trouble with rephrasing; do you have any suggestions. The reason for the third has largely to do with the sorts of things that post-1964 sources tend to cover, such as a car running into the rock. I'm doing some searching for more information using a variety of search terms and I've found these bits of history that I think can be incorporated into the article:

  1. In 1969, a time capsule was buried beside the rock. It will be opened in 2044. The Glen Rock has also become a symbol of the Glen Rock, New Jersey community.
  2. A plaque placed beside the rock was stolen in April 1984 and mysteriously returned in September 1986. The plaque was different than the World War I memorial plaque and it wasn't the first time it was stolen (though it might take me a bit more time to dig up information on the prior theft of the plaque). I will add to this comment when I figure out more about these thefts. —
     talk) 20:40, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply
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     OK, so there was a plaque installed by the State placed at the location in 1964 (see also: this 1974 news clipping and this 1975 news clipping). It's not clear to me if the photograph on that website is in the public domain (it's a 1964 photograph, so even if it was published that year it could be copyrighted if the copyright on the photograph was registered and subsequently renewed), though it would have been a nice addition to the article. —

     talk) 21:56, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply

     ]

     I've added some information to the article from these and some other sources I was able to find. Please let me know if this resolves your concerns. —

     talk) 22:36, 11 May 2022 (UTC)[reply

     ]

• OK to work through your edits:
• The bluelinks can be in lead and body (and infobox)
• There's still references in the lead. There shouldn't need to be, as I said, because all the references are in the body.
• "The Glen Rock is a 570-ton boulder located in Glen Rock, New Jersey.[1][2][3][4] The boulder, which is the namesake of the town in which it is located" this bit is still only in lead, apart from weight. Four references on such a short sentence also seems like a lot
• Grading (earthworks) solves that issue! Nice one
• For "Later, colonists used the rock as a landmark on colonial trails and as a marker for colonial-era land deeds" in lead and the similar sentence in body, I'd suggest something like: "Later, settler colonialists used the rocks as a landmark on their trails and as marker for land deeds"
• The post 1964 stuff is great to have, "rock" is used a lot, could some "rocks" be replaced with "monument" or similar
• Yes I was wondering what parameters the infobox takes, you might have more luck with Infobox monument for example.
• Just checking what's else ... Native Americans can still be linked and can I also check (maybe this is a USEng/BrEng thing), saying "natives" seems strange to me because I tend to use "Indigenous peoples" but if native is accepted usage that's fine
• Back to nominator! Mujinga (talk) 09:09, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've added bluelinks back to the body. Please let me know if I have missed any.
  • I've removed citations from the lead. I typically like to do this as the very last step.
  • The Glen Rock is a 570-ton boulder located in Glen Rock, New Jersey. The boulder, which is the namesake of the town in which it is located (internal citations omitted) is not only in the lead. Its weight and location are located in the section on "Geology and Natural History", while the statement that the Borough of Glen Rock, New Jersey is named after the boulder is in the "Cultural History" section under the "Indigenous, colonial, and early American use" subsection.
  • I've implemented something along the lines of your proposed sentence to reduce the reliance on "colonists", though the wording is slightly different. Does this work?
  • I've tried to change up the wording in the post-1964 area to reduce the use of "rock".
  • With respect to the infobox, I noticed that Clonfinlough Stone (an Irish glacial erratic) uses {{Infobox historic site}}. I think that it's appropriate here, so I've swapped in the infobox template. There isn't exactly a full "dimensions" part of the infobox, but it does have one for height.
  • "Natives" sounds perfectly fine to my ear and I think it's in line with accepted use.
  • Back to you,
    talk) 21:55, 12 May 2022 (UTC)[reply
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    • On bluelinks I've added two, see what you think
    • Everything else seems fine, congratulations on bringing this article up to GA standard. Mujinga (talk) 13:01, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]