Talk:Sam Kee Building/GA2

GA Review

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Nominator: Yue (talk · contribs) 07:31, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Actuall7 (talk · contribs) 08:04, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I would like to review this article. Creating the page first. Actuall7 (talk) 08:04, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

@Actuall7: I have made these edits based on your feedback. I have also responded to each of your points. Please take a look and let me know what else you'd like to see. Cheers. Yue🌙 03:55, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Hey @Yue, great work addressing everything so far. Upon checking the image again, I think it is slightly longer than the building, so it should be fine to leave the sentence. Additionally, should it be changed to specify wider than the first floor, not the building? I doubt anyone will be confused by it, so you can leave it if you want. Actuall7 (talk) 04:22, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

@Actuall7: Maybe "... wider than the building (excluding the bay windows)."? Yue🌙 05:29, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Sure. One last thing, the expropriate without compensation linked in the lead should be linked in the Background and prelude section. After that, I think that it's ready to pass. Actuall7 (talk) 05:56, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

@Actuall7:  Done. Yue🌙 06:32, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

Good work on the article, passing it now. Actuall7 (talk) 06:35, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

initial checks

• Earwig and authorship is fine.
• File:Sam Kee Building, 23 May 2024.jpg Y
• File:Sam Kee Building side view, 16 May 2024.jpg Y
• File:Sam Kee Building lot before and after.png Y
• File:Sam Kee Building, Pender Street at Carrall (Dec. 1937).jpg Y
• File:Skinny Building, 2015-03-10.jpg Y

• Minor issue, but I think the 2015 is a typo. The file information and metadata states it was taken on 10 March 2014, not 2015. – Fixed. Yue🌙

Lead

• British Columbia, Canada, and Pennsylvania should not be linked per MOS:OVERLINK. –  Done. Yue🌙
• The reference used in the infobox to cite the alternative name Jack Chow Building calls it the Jack Chow Insurance Building. – Fixed. Yue🌙
• Chang bet a business associate that he could construct a building on the land that remained, and the Sam Kee Building was completed a year later. The comma should be removed. –  Done. Yue🌙

Architecture

• Is it possible to find the length of the sign? The source doesn't state its length and it isn't quite clear in the picture whether it really is wider than the building. – I couldn't find a measurement online or in the city archives. Do you want to take the source's word for it or remove that sentence? Yue🌙
• Spite house and Vancouver City Council should be linked. –  Done. Yue🌙
• In 1998, when the fee for the windows was waived by Vancouver City Council, the fees were CA$260 for the windows and CA$2,500 for the basement. It doesn't really make sense to include the basement fee in this sentence, given that it is talking about the waiving of the window fees. – Expanded the sentence into a paragraph. Yue🌙

Background and prelude

• established a branch in Vancouver in 1907, with the goal of expelling Asians from the city. Remove comma. –  Done. Yue🌙
• Consider changing Asiatic Exclusion League to Vancouver Asiatic Exclusion League to follow the source and linking to Asiatic Exclusion League#Canada. –  Done. Yue🌙
• successfully petitioned Vancouver City Council change to successfully petitioned to the Vancouver City Council – Adjusted. Yue🌙
• in order to render Chinese-owned properties unsuitable for commercial use Specify that it was properties along Pender Street. Also, shouldn't it be Chinese-owned lots, given that properties weren't built there yet? – Fixed. Yue🌙
• Not sure if Chang Toy was "influential". The sources used in that sentence don't really call him "influential", but "well-known". – Removed. Yue🌙
• running a large-scale import-export business that involved members of the Anglo-European business establishment It might just be me, but I find this sentence hard to understand, do you think you could reword it slightly? –  Done. Yue🌙

Construction and early years

• The basement contained a public baths. Fix typo. – Fixed. Yue🌙
• Consider including that Kennerly Bryan and William C. F. Gillam were Bryan & Gillam, given that you include the name of the firm in the infobox. –  Done. Yue🌙

Acquisition by Jack Chow

• Consider adding the cost of the renovation as stated in Ref 7. –  Done. Yue🌙

Current use

• I might have missed it, but which part of Ref 4 states that Rod gives tours of the building? – I probably forgot to put the proper citation there. I know for a fact that he gives tours because I went on one this year, but I can't find the source right now so I'll leave it out. Yue🌙

Recognition

• Link Guinness World Record. –  Done. Yue🌙

See also

• I think the see also section should be more similar to the Skinny Building's, which includes the links to its rival and spite house. – I did not include a link to either because of WP:NOTSEEALSO: "As a general rule, the "See also" section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body." Yue🌙

References

• You should link the names of newspapers in the reflist, seeing how some are linked and others and not. –  Done. Yue🌙
• Add the source date for [9]. –  Done. Yue🌙
• Is [3] and [5] reliable in this sentence: which were characteristic of many buildings in Chinatown at the time of its construction, in 1913? [5] states that it has bay windows whilst [3] states that it is characteristic. [3] is seemingly by an agency under the government so I'm not sure if that proves that it was characteristic. Does this source better explain why the bay windows were characteristic? – Adjective changed to "common" + more context added from source provided by reviewer. Yue🌙
• The rest of the sources are fine.

References

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