Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Geology Hall

Geology Hall

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of the TFAR nomination of the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page unless you are renominating the article at TFAR. For renominations, please add   to the top of the discussion and   at the bottom, then complete a new TFAR nom underneath.

The result was: not scheduled by BencherliteTalk 19:50, 21 April 2014 (UTC)



Geology Hall is a building located in the historic Queens Campus section of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey's College Avenue Campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was included on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 as part of the Queens Campus. When Rutgers was selected as New Jersey's only land grant college in 1864, it expanded its curriculum to include science and agriculture education. Rutgers president William Henry Campbell raised funds to construct a building to accommodate these programs. Designed by architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, Geology Hall was built in 1872. At present, the building houses administrative offices and the university's geological museum. The museum, which is among the oldest collegiate geology collections in the United States, was founded by state geologist and Rutgers professor George Hammell Cook. Its exhibits showcase the natural history of New Jersey, geology, paleontology, and anthropology and include fluorescent zinc minerals from Franklin and Ogdensburg, a mastodon (pictured) from Salem County, a dinosaur trackway discovered in Towaco, and a Ptolemaic era Egyptian mummy.
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 * Promoted: 2014-04-13
 * Reasons for nomination: new FA, it would be Tomwsulcer's first TFA appearance and first FA. BLURB: As proposed (above), 185 words, 1,227 characters with spaces.
 * Support as nominator. ColonelHenry (talk) 01:03, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Support because SCIENCE !!! &mdash; Cirt (talk) 18:03, 16 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Now 1,200 exactly. BencherliteTalk 22:34, 20 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment - Using the full legal name (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) when the article on the university itself is at Rutgers University and states that Rutgers University is an acceptable common name feels pointy, and possibly promotional. I've tried to boldly change this, but was reverted by the nominator. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:27, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
 * The university hasn't been officially "Rutgers University" since 1945, so putting it in the blurb for this purpose would be promoting an inaccuracy--something I am loathe to do. The "common name" policy, WP:UCN, works for article titles, especially for length official names vs. shorter unofficial names, but it shouldn't trump accuracy in terms of content and the representation of content. As an acceptable common name, I compare this to running a blurb on the "Nobel Prize in Economics" when there is "officially" no such thing.--ColonelHenry (talk) 04:13, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
 * I fail to see how the comparison can be made, when the simple "Rutgers University" is not easily confused with something of a similar name (unlike the Nobel Memorial Prize). Simply typing "Rutgers" into our search bar goes straight to the university article, and nothing at Rutgers (disambiguation) could reasonably be called Rutgers University. Bill Clinton is legally William Clinton, and Madonna has a legal name that few would recognize. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 11:02, 21 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Oppose Seems like not-generally interesting university boosterism of a building mostly used as administrative offices. I'd rather see an article about mastodons than to make a fuss about a building that contains one. More actual science articles please, less valorization of administrative offices.__ E L A Q U E A T E  10:20, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment The nominator User:ColonelHenry and his sockpuppets have just been indefinitely blocked for perpetuating a hoax article about Rutgers University. I think that puts this nomination under an embarrassing cloud for the moment. It looks like this article was almost completely written by the banned user and will need more community investigation. __ E L A Q U E A T E  16:30, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Agreed. Now is not the time to run a ColonelHenry article as TFA. Closing. BencherliteTalk 19:50, 21 April 2014 (UTC)