Template:Did you know nominations/John V. Farwell & Co.


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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:36, 24 August 2014 (UTC)

John V. Farwell & Co. & John V. Farwell

 * ... that Marshall Field and Levi Leiter, co-founders of Marshall Field & Co., were both once partners with John V. Farwell (pictured) at John V. Farwell & Co.?
 * Reviewed: Jonah Kapena & Rock 'n' Roll Cities

Created by Teemu08 (talk). Self nominated at 14:38, 19 June 2014 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg QPQs done. --Storye book (talk) 09:25, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Re John V. Farwell. New enough (created 19 June, nom 19 June), and long enough. The article text is objective, neutral, and fully referenced, although almost all of it is sourced in one offline book. Because the sources are offline, no checks could be made for copyvio or close paraphrasing. No disambig links found in manual check.--Storye book (talk) 09:25, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Re John V. Farwell & Co.. New enough (created 18 June) and long enough. The article text is objectively written and neutral in style, and is fully referenced. No sources of copyvio or close paraphrasing found. No disambig links found.--Storye book (talk) 09:25, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Hook: The hook is sourced in the article John V. Farwell & Co. to offline citation #4. Hook image is free and appears in one of the articles. Issue: the hook needs to be repeated in full in the article John V. Farwell with an online citation.--Storye book (talk) 09:25, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Summary: When the hook has been repeated and sourced in the article John V. Farwell with its inline citation, this nom should be OK. --Storye book (talk) 09:25, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your review. I have improved the referencing and made a more explicit reference to Marshall Field's in the Farwell article. Teemu08 (talk) 17:30, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Note to other editors: reviewer Storye book is on a wiki-break while dealing with computer issues. This entry may require another reviewer in the meantime. Teemu08 (talk) 15:46, 26 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Teemu08, I took a look to see whether Storye book's concerns had been addressed, but while looking at both articles there seem to be general issues that need to be dealt with. The hook issue is one: the major single source for the John V. Farwell article does not support the assertion that Field and Leiter were ever partners with Farwell: indeed, it says that Farwell became a partner in 1850 and the firm name changed to include Farwell in 1860—the way the entry there is written, Field and Leiter joined around the time of the 1860 name change to Cooley, Farwell & Co. (mentioned in the Farwell bio source, but not mentioned in the Farwell & Co. article and seeming to contradict Wadsworth's 1863 retirement) and Farwell supervised their training. The source doesn't mention them further; what is needed in the bio is info from the sources from the other article that talk about the 1864 partnership and the 1865 departure. For the John V. Farwell & Co. article, it needs to mention Farwell himself in the intro—you have to involve the person whose name is given to the firm. The intro has other issues (was it the clothing store or the original that was the most successful?), and it also mischaracterizes the ultimate sale to Carson, Pirie & Co., which is fine in the article body. It's important that these two articles not contradict each other... BlueMoonset (talk) 17:14, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I hopefully have resolved the issues that you had with these articles. Teemu08 (talk) 19:29, 31 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Time to re-review, please? Thanks. --PFHLai (talk) 14:22, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg don't see any issues with the article. Date OK; length okay; hook cited and neutral--cited to an online source, Article neutral, no copyvio.Bali88 (talk) 19:27, 24 August 2014 (UTC)