Wikipedia:Peer review/Hotel Polen fire/archive1

Hotel Polen fire
This peer review discussion has been closed. I've listed this article for peer review because… I would like to see what might be needed to promote the article to FA class. Thanks, SpeakFree (talk)(contribs) 02:49, 29 December 2011 (UTC)


 * The sentence That so many people could die... looks randomly placed, it looks like it shouldn't belongs there.
 * The paragraphs on The fire section are short, can these be expanded on, or merged together?
 * Can you elaborate what this means to non-local readers: through which the Papenbroekssteeg runs, connecting the Rokin with the Kalverstraat.

Hope this helps, Mattg82 (talk) 04:09, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Re you last point, the Kalverstraat and the Rokin lie more of less parallel. The Papenbroekssteeg is an alley connecting them both. Hotel Polen faced the alley on one side with the De Slegte book store on the other side of the alley. The historical situation can be seen on Page 50 of the fire department report linked in the article. In the '80s the Rokin Plaza was built encompassing both buildings and the alley goes through the building and there is a small square in the middle. If you look up Rokin 14, Amsterdam on Google Maps with Satellite view you can get an idea of the current situation.


 * I will look at your other points later. Thanks for the help! SpeakFree (talk)(contribs) 23:17, 4 January 2012 (UTC)