Talk:Brunel University lecture centre
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![]() | Brunel University lecture centre is currently an Art and architecture good article nominee. Nominated by Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) at 21:27, 17 June 2024 (UTC) Anyone who has not contributed significantly to (or nominated) this article may review it according to the good article criteria to decide whether or not to list it as a good article. To start the review process, click start review and save the page. (See here for the good article instructions.) Short description: Grade II listed building in London |
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![]() | A fact from Brunel University lecture centre appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 July 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
- 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: promoted by Sohom Datta talk 03:44, 4 July 2024 (UTC)
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- ... that Brunel University's lecture centre (pictured) was planned to be part of one of the biggest engineering teaching complexes in Europe?
- ALT1: ... that Brunel University's lecture centre (pictured) has been described as "imposing" and "frightening", but also as "an expressive centrepiece" and "a brutalist classic"? Source: "imposing", "frightening" and "a brutalist classic", "an expressive centrepiece"
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Dagmar Skálová
- Comment: I personally prefer ALT1.
Created by Suntooooth (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 7 past nominations.
Suntooooth, it/he (talk/contribs) 22:19, 14 June 2024 (UTC).
- Review underway... Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 16:02, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
- Created (moved from draftspace) on 14th June.
- Long enough, and graded at B-class.
- Decent sources: NHLE listing particulars (extensive), a journal article with more than a passing mention, book about the university (I have checked this via WebArchive) and a couple of newspaper pieces. No issues around notability.
- QPQ review has been done and is awaiting action from the article's nominator. (Edit to say that this is one of the DYK nominations affected by the blocking of the article nominator Evrik as detailed here, which I hadn't realised until checking WT:DYK today. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 12:30, 18 June 2024 (UTC))
- Re. The lecture centre was finished in 1966 or 1967: surprising that Historic England has not been able to pin down the completion date, but I have checked the listing particulars and other sources and it is indeed the case.
- Image is suitably licensed, was taken by the article author, is used in the article and looks fine at thumbnail size.
- All statements are sourced. No issues with neutrality.
- No copyvio or close paraphrasing noted. There are a couple of phrases which cannot really be reworded without losing their meaning.
- Hooks: both are fully verified. ALT1 is better; I wonder if it might be worth including a reference to the building's use in A Clockwork Orange to grab attention. Something like: ...that Brunel University's "imposing" and "frightening" lecture centre (pictured) featured in A Clockwork Orange? (another editor would need to sign off that hook).
Happy to mark this as verified. Note to prep builders: see my comment above on a possible ALT2 hook which I have suggested. Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 21:09, 17 June 2024 (UTC)
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