Template:Did you know nominations/Tartan Laboratories


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:20, 7 February 2016 (UTC)

Tartan Laboratories

 * ... that in the 1980s, the software startup company Tartan Laboratories was considered an example of Pittsburgh's attempt to shift from an industrial-based economy to high technology?


 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John Watson (solicitor general)

Created by Wasted Time R (talk). Self-nominated at 11:18, 14 January 2016 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg New enough, long enough, well written and well sourced. Earwig tool found no copyvio. QPQ done. However, I don't see the hook claims in the article. The closest is the sentence "In 1983 the company hosted a visit by Governor of Pennsylvania Dick Thornburgh as part of a meeting of the Pittsburgh High Technology Council, an organization seeking to help change Pittsburgh from a smoke-stack city to a high-technology city." but that doesn't really source the claim that Tartan was throughout the 1980s considered an exemplary part of that shift. Could we either add a clearer statement of the hook to the article, with sources, or a better hook? —David Eppstein (talk) 18:11, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks very much for the review. I've done some expansion/clarification in the article – the smokestack reference was actually from a different newspaper's story in 1985.  So now there are two sentences in the article that support this hook.  As for "in the 1980s", I didn't mean that to indicate throughout the decade, just that it occurred in the decade.  Because if you took that out of the hook, the reader would have no idea of what timeframe the hook took place in – the Pittsburgh steel industry has been in decline ever since the 1970s.  Would the following reword help?  Wasted Time R (talk) 13:35, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
 * ALT1: ... the software startup company Tartan Laboratories was considered an example of Pittsburgh's attempt in the 1980s to shift from an industrial-based economy to high technology?
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Ok, I think this is better (clarifies that 1980s is when the shift happened, not when the consideration happened) and supported well enough by the "smokestack wasteland" sentence in the article and that sentence's source. Good to go with ALT1. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:21, 7 February 2016 (UTC)