Talk:Old Louisville

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Good articleOld Louisville has been listed as one of the Geography and places good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
August 8, 2006Good article nomineeListed
November 2, 2006Peer reviewReviewed
May 12, 2007Featured article candidateNot promoted
August 7, 2009Good article reassessmentListed
Current status: Good article

Filson

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In my last change, I stated I would move the Filson link to See also, but that's not necessary, as it's already wikilinked in the article. —  Stevie is the man!  Talk | Work 22:46, 30 June 2006 (UTC)Reply

GA Passed

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Congratulations! I have promoted the article to GA status. The next thing I would suggest is working on red links -- either removing them or writing stubs or articles for them. I'd also suggest increasing the number of inline citations as well. --CTSWyneken(talk) 16:54, 14 August 2006 (UTC)Reply

Crime section

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The 10th paragraph in the Leo source states that crime (reported in the first 1/2 of 2006) was significantly down from the 2005 levels. 4.225.122.15 02:47, 5 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

  • I've gone ahead and fixed it. There should probably be better coverage of crime in general in Old Louisville, there was a great fear of it in the 1970s and 1980s for example, not sure if the crime rates really reflect that. I am not sure where to go for the stats though off the top of my head. --W.marsh 03:31, 5 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

There are several people who have lived in my house since the 1980s who say things are tremendously better than they were. Also, the city as a whole saw a jump of crime in 2005, not just Old Louisville, this should also be mentioned. 4.225.126.134 16:55, 5 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

Peer review

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Clean up

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I was just doing some minor cleanup on the history section. I added a few places where I thought citations might help as well. Overall pretty good stuff. No real glaring errors, I did fix one minor POV issue, about the amphitheatre being one of the best theatres, which is a completely subjective statement. I'll look over the rest of the article as well. Hope this helps. A mcmurray 08:27, 2 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

I think it actually was considered one of the best, if we source that it's not really a NPOV issue. Anyway thanks for the citation needed tags, most books I'm using on this are non-circulating so I'll add citations when I'm at the library next. --W.marsh 17:01, 5 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

St. James Court fountain

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I have been under the impression that the fountain in St. James Court was a leftover from the Southern Exposition. Is that true? If so, that would be a good nugget of info for the article. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 17:07, 15 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

  • I'll see if I can find anything, it would be an interesting thing to mention... hopefully right after Christmas I'll have time to spend a day at the library. Most of the good books on Old Louisville are non-circulating and out of print. --W.marsh 18:01, 15 December 2006 (UTC)Reply
  • OK, my impression was incorrect. The fountain we see today was installed in 1890, three years after the exposition was over. I got this from the Encyclopedia of Louisville. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 18:15, 29 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Removed from article

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In recent years Old Louisville has been touting itself as the most haunted neighborhood in the country, and the Visitors Center in Historic Old Louisville has begun offering ghost tours based on the allegedly haunted locations mentioned in local author David Domine's books Ghosts of Old Louisville: True Stories of Hauntings in America's Most Haunted Neighborhood and Phantoms of Old Louisville: Ghostly Tales from America's Most Haunted Neighborhood.

Would be nice to mention the book(s) written about Old Louisville though. --W.marsh 12:12, 3 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

GA Reassessment

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I will do the GA Reassessment of this article as part of the GA Sweeps project. H1nkles (talk) 21:00, 7 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

The article is fairly solid. Writing is good, images are fine, no significant MOS violations. I've sifted throught the article and made some minor edits, mostly MOS compliance stuff, pretty minor. I would like to see an update of the information in the Revitalization sub-section. Most of the info is from 2003 to 2006. What has happened since then? There is liberal in-line citations throughout the article. The links are still solid. The article is a little dated, as evidenced above and given the John Kerry election results of 2004. This should be updated. The references are formatted correctly. I did a couple of edits on some page numbers to bring a little more consistency to the format but these are not significant. In all the article has maintained its integrity and certainly meets the current GA Criteria. H1nkles (talk) 21:09, 7 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

Assessment comment

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Rated as GA, as it is GA. Stevie is the man! TalkWork 17:01, 15 December 2006 (UTC)Reply

Last edited at 17:05, 15 December 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 01:47, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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