Wikipedia:Peer review/Cathedral of Learning/archive1
Cathedral of Learning[edit]
I'd like to get this up to FA level, if that's possible (not sure if the topic is deep enough). Would love suggustions on style/organizing, more information to add, or anything else. Lyellin 18:09, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC)
- This looks like a very interesting building! How does it compare to the rest of the campus, and to the city? I assume a "nationality room" is an otherwise ordinary room decorated in some way that suggests a particular culture; is that true? Perhaps a picture would help here. AlexG 22:21, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- DOH! I forgot to do the write up for that section. I'll get on that soon. Thanks! Lyellin 13:34, Sep 16, 2004 (UTC)
- Just added a bunch of information about the room project/process- hopefully that will improve it some. Lyellin 17:44, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
- To throw in my two cents, I can't help wondering what the tallest building is. Just so the comparison can be made. I'd say that, considering everything from fractals to foreskins have been FA, this is well within the realm of possibility. Not there yet, though... Also, try adding some brief blurbs about each of the rooms. -Litefantastic 14:15, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Do you think that might get it to be too long? Lyellin 06:38, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
- To throw in my two cents, I can't help wondering what the tallest building is. Just so the comparison can be made. I'd say that, considering everything from fractals to foreskins have been FA, this is well within the realm of possibility. Not there yet, though... Also, try adding some brief blurbs about each of the rooms. -Litefantastic 14:15, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- No, it wouldn't be too long; whenever somebody says something is the "second-largest", the immediate reaction is to wonder what beats it. This article is nowhere near too long. My other point would be that reading the article, I don't really know what goes on in the other 39 stories. Could you elaborate? [[User:Meelar|Meelar (talk)]] 06:48, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
- I meant with a blurb about each of the 26 rooms :-). I added in the floor information- see if that helps.
I'm still looking for the name of the other building. It's in Russia....Lyellin 17:18, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC) I just added in the info regarding the tallest building. Lyellin 17:51, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
- I meant with a blurb about each of the 26 rooms :-). I added in the floor information- see if that helps.
- A few comments -- Please add a source on the statement that the philosophy department is "one of the top three in the world" (either an external link or a link to a Wiki article would be fine). I'd also be interested to see a source on the usage of Floors 37-42 (I'm a CMU student, and I didn't know what those floors were for). Also, what are the "proposed rooms" -- have those still not been finished? Were they once proposed and then discarded?
- The article needs a few references -- where are you getting this information? I'm sure the University of Pittsburgh library has a few books about this; even if you don't have time to read through them, you could email a librarian to ask for titles, etc.
- The list of nationality rooms is useful; I'd like to see more information about how the building is used, though. Statistics on numbers of classrooms, square footage. I'm told that the astronomy club has antennas/telescopes/etc. on the top? The University of Pittsburgh uses the Cathedral for a lot of its official stuff (postcards, etc.; pretty much any picture of campus). Has the building ever been used for anything besides academics (giant parties, important events)? Has it ever appeared in any movies? Have there been any large pranks involving it? Has there ever been a suicide?
- Anyway, I think there's a lot of stuff here to make an article on. I made a few changes, mostly copyediting. Let me know if you'd like me to take a look at it again at some point. Have fun! -- Creidieki 05:36, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)