Talk:German Mission House

German Mission House is currently an Art and architecture good article nominee. Nominated by Generalissima (talk) (it/she) at 05:59, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

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Short description: House on Chatham Island, New Zealand

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by Launchballer talk 14:48, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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German Mission House

... that over the course of several decades, the missionaries of German Mission House (pictured) failed to convert a single person?

Source: King, Michael; Morrison, Robin (1990). A Land Apart: The Chatham Islands of New Zealand. Auckland: Random House New Zealand. (https://archive.org/details/landapartchatham0000king) pp. 59-62

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Created by Generalissima (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 46 past nominations.

Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 06:06, 9 May 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Article was created on the same day as nomination. Article meets adequate quality standards and contains enough prose for DYK, my only suggestions are for "the western end of the building" to be potentially reworded just due to similarity in the source, and for the double space in the 'History' section to be fixed. Very interesting hook! I took a look at the source and I noticed that it had mentioned "Moriori, Maori, or Pakeha" (meaning the missionaries failed to convert Indigenous or European New Zealanders) and I'm wondering if this, or the fact that this took place in New Zealand, would be worth mentioning in the hook as well. Picture is relevant to the hook. QPQ done. Great work on the article! Please ping when concerns have been addressed. Thanks, B3251 (talk) 20:30, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Ooh, good catch! Fixed this in the article. For the hook, I generally try to condense the hooks as much as I can, but. ALT1": ... that over the course of several decades, the missionaries of New Zealand's German Mission House (pictured) failed to convert a single person?" could work! Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 00:32, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. I just wanted to suggest any sort of inclusion of New Zealand in the hook so that there wouldn't be any confusion with the building having "German" in its name. Good to go now. :) B3251 (talk) 01:05, 10 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:German Mission House/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Generalissima (talk · contribs) 05:59, 9 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Zawed (talk · contribs) 10:22, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll take a look at this one over the upcoming weekend. Zawed (talk) 10:22, 30 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comments as follows:

Infobox

Is it possible to alter the scale of the map to show the whole island? Given the obscurity of the Chathams, the present scale, without any other features for reference/context, doesn't seem helpful.

History

Maunganui Bluff is red linked here but not in lead
following a land feud...: this wording seems strange, "a feud over land" seems a more natural expression. Also, who was he feuding with?
There are two different redlinks for Johannes Engst (text/caption), I would go with the one that doesn't use his middle name, doesn't need this level of disambiguation at this stage.

Structure

Dangerfield says that there were three bedrooms in the upper storey. May as mention the number as not explicitly stated at the moment.
The building is split into three rooms: strictly speaking, isn't it the ground floor that is split into three rooms?
1st column, 2 para of page 16 of Dangerfield touches on the importance attached to the building by the locals. Worth mentioning?

Source checks

Spot checks done on cites 2, 3 and 5, these are fine.

Other stuff

No dupe links
The colour image tags check out although the two B&W photographs need US tags.
I noticed it was only placed in one category, I added a couple more that I thought were relevant.

That's it for me. Cheers, Zawed (talk) 11:08, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Zawed: Thank you so much! I think I fixed everything up. Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 14:40, 3 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]