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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 01:53, 23 November 2012 (UTC)

1-21 Cornwall Terrace edit

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Cornwall Terrace

  • ... that 1-21 Cornwall Terrace (pictured) consisting of eight double-fronted mansions was on the market for a collective price of £400 million, making it one of the most expensive properties in the world?

Created/expanded by Dr. Blofeld (talk), Nvvchar (talk). Nominated by Nvvchar (talk) at 19:10, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

  • Article of expected length and created within timescales. Hook interesting, correctly formatted and referenced fully. Image is free use. Good to go. Bladeboy1889 (talk) 16:38, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
  • I pulled this hook out of Queue 1 due to concerns about the quality of the article and hook. --Orlady (talk) 18:58, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
Issues with this article were raised at WT:DYK. The article is very rough, is a jumble of disconnected facts, and borders on the nonsensical (e.g., "The mansion was one of the first to be built at the southwest angle near Baker street of the Park and very pleasing to the eyes but of size not comparable to the adjoining the large York Terrace"). I looked at the various cited sources in an attempt to make sense of some of the rougher parts of the article, and I can't figure out where most of the article comes from because much of the content isn't supported by the footnoted references. (For example, I find no hint of "exuberant parties" in this source.) The hook wording is poor, and I find that the hook facts are not fully supported: The property was not marketed as a single property with a single price (nor were all the individual mansions marketed at one time) and none of the cited sources support the assertion that the entire complex is "one of the most expensive properties in the world". The article creators are not newbies; they should be able to do better work than this. --Orlady (talk) 19:19, 13 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Made changes to meet above observations. References have been refixed. Peacock words deleted. Rosiestep has also helped in editing and hence her name has been added in the credits. Hope the article meets the requirements now. Thanks. Alt 1 Hook suggested is ... that 1-21 Cornwall Terrace (pictured) consisting of eight double-fronted mansions is one of the most expensive properties in the world? --Nvvchar. 16:29, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Sorry to say, but I still have some concerns. Starting with the lead sentence, which says this "is a Grade I listed Neoclassical mansion". I think that's wrong; it appears to me from the sources that it is a complex of 8 terraced houses, each one of which is considered to be a mansion. The next sentence says that it is said to be "the world’s most expensive terraced house", but the sources that make that statement appear to be referring to only one of the 8 houses in the complex (specifically, One Cornwall Terrace, which is at one end of the complex). Some other statements in the article (for example, "The property has seven bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a hydraulic elevator, and 11 reception rooms; it is one of the premier residences in London...") also are misrepresented as describing the entire complex, when the sources indicate that they describe just One Cornwall Terrace, and not the entire complex. --Orlady (talk) 16:43, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
  • Article is OK now. ALT2 and ALT3 are good. Thanks for your good work, Rosiestep! --Orlady (talk) 15:29, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
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