Talk:Wigwam (Chicago)

	Wigwam (Chicago) was one of the Art and architecture 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 May 3, 2007 Good article nominee Listed October 16, 2009 Good article reassessment Delisted
	A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on April 2, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that the 1860 Republican and 1864 Democratic national conventions were held at the Wigwam, a building built in just over a month?
Current status: Delisted good article

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Please stop adding dab links to the top of the article for other uses of the word Wigwam. One purpose of dab links is to help users find the correct article if the title could refer to something else, so if there were multiple uses of the term "Wigwam (Chicago)" then there should be a dab link at the top to take the user to either a dab page or the other possible page if there's only one other possible article. The other purpose is where there's a redirect that will bring users to this page but where they might have been expecting another page. So if this was the most common use of the word Wigwam and the page Wigwam was actually a redirect to this page, then again there should be a dab link at the top so that users who have searched under "Wigwam" can find the page they are actually looking for. HOWEVER, in this case there are no other uses of "Wigwam (Chicago)" (and if there were, the dab link would go to other uses of "Wigwam (Chicago)" and NOT other uses of "Wigwam"), and Wigwam doesn't redirect here. SO PLEASE STOP ADDING DAB LINKS. They are not intended as a kind of ornamentation, and should only be used where needed, not as something pretty to clog up the top of the page with. Thanks... 86.152.203.212 10:03, 3 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is a well-supported article but it suffers from some of the problems that a lot of the recent Chicago GA nominees have had, including:

• Far too many sections. Consider combining "name" with "the building", and I would turn "history" into a tripartite section with subheadings for "conventions" and "today" - as it stands, the sections are out of order chronologically, anyway.  Done 22:37, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
• Choppy sentence structure. Consider copyediting for smoother prose. Commas are desperate for attention. Done 17:49, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
• I think the phrase "enthusiastic swell" is rather unencyclopedic - perhaps a tamer description (more detail welcome in the Convention section about this, by the way) is appropriate.  Done 22:37, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

GA nomination on hold at this time.

Ok, I think I'm done fussing with it - Do you want to give it a last once-over?

Chubbles 22:51, 3 May 2007 (UTC)[reply

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