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Geology Hall

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The result was: not scheduled by — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:16, 24 September 2015 (UTC)



Geology Hall is a building located in the historic Queens Campus section of the Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States. It was included on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. When Rutgers was selected as the state's only land grant college in 1864, the college began to expand its curriculum, including science and agriculture. College president William Henry Campbell raised funds to construct a building to accommodate this expansion, and Geology Hall, designed by architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, was built in 1872. The building houses now administrative offices and the university's geological museum. It shows one of the oldest collegiate geology collections in the United States, founded by state geologist and Rutgers professor George Hammell Cook in 1872. It showcases the natural history of New Jersey, focused on geology, paleontology, and anthropology. Exhibits include fluorescent zinc minerals from Franklin and Ogdensburg, a mastodon from Salem County, a dinosaur trackway discovered in Towaco, and a Ptolemaic era Egyptian mummy.
 * Most recent similar article(s): no recent geology museum, - yes other buildings such as Capon Chapel, to be 2 Oct
 * Main editors: ,
 * Promoted: April 2014
 * Reasons for nomination: why not? (not scheduled last time, which I had completely forgotten when I wrote this blurb)
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:01, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Support as per .--Tomwsulcer (talk) 11:05, 23 September 2015 (UTC) Changing to Undecided based on comments below. Note I only contributed photos to this article, I personally have not tried to verify any of its facts although after I did a superficial reading, nothing struck me as obviously wrong. I mean, the article seems reasonable, this doesn't seem to be one of those subjects that attracts the POV-pushers.--Tomwsulcer (talk) 12:02, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose until every single aspect of this article has been verified as free of the kind of lies and invention that caused its primary author to be banned from Wikipedia. —  Scott  •  talk  11:34, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
 * You would be a reliable person to do that. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:01, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I have much, much better things to do with my time. —  Scott  •  talk  19:43, 24 September 2015 (UTC)


 * Why not? Because of the FAC nominator's history that meant that I didn't schedule it last year. Oppose per Scott until this article has been given a clean bill of health on a thorough investigation by unconnected editors. BencherliteTalk 14:26, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose: Regardless of the doubts expressed above concerning this article, the Art and Architecture category of featured articles has been considerably over-represented at TFA this year. It's quite a small category, proportionately worth about 7 or 8 in a full year. In 2015 we have already scheduled 12 (6 paintings and 6 buildings} and this would be the 13th, with three months still to run. There is no case at all for scheduling this beyond the rather pallid "why not?", which I think has been fairly answered. Brianboulton (talk) 22:31, 23 September 2015 (UTC)