Talk:Electro-Dynamic Light Company

Electro-Dynamic Light Company was one of the Engineering and technology good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 2, 2021	Good article nominee	Listed
February 26, 2023	Good article reassessment	Delisted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 5, 2016.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Electro-Dynamic Light Company, organized by Albon Man and others, was formed three months before the Edison Electric-Light Company?

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Electro-Dynamic Light Company/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: The Rambling Man (talk · contribs) 20:54, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Again, lead is too short, needs to pick something notable, probably from each major para of the article.
Done

Link patent.
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And "incandescent electric lamp"
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And "electric meter"
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"The inventions were that" were those.
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"first company formally" in the world?
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"United States.[5][6][7] It was the first company" merge, "States, and was..."
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"The U. S. Electric Lighting Company was organized in 1878, weeks after the Electro-Dynamic Company" is it not notable? If not, why mention it?
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"and was granted" and which was..
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Link electroplating.
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"that whenever a flow of electricity was desired it is only necessary to turn on a switch to obtain whatever supply of electricity was needed" could tighten, e.g. "that whenever electricity was desired, it was available from a switched supply" (for example).
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"an Electric Lamp or Burner" why caps?
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"The names of other investor-partners " -> "Other investor-partners included.."
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"twenty-eight years old and Man about fifty-two years old at" 28/52
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" $10,000 cash and $290,000 of scrip" inflate, and what is scrip?
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"40,000 degrees Fahrenheit" convert.
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"carbon filament did not burn out and produced light instead" it produced light because it got hot right? Not because of lack of oxygen?
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"What was unique of Man and Sawyer's lighting system patent No. 205,303, dated June 5, 1878, was " -> "Unique to ... was..."
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"the Examiner of Interferences" link?
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"arch shaped" hyphenate.
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"U. S. Patent Office " link. And I imagine it should be US Patent Office. Or U.S. Patent Office.
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Demise sentence can be worked into the History section.
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Ref 22 needs en-dash.
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"Wrege" source has a dangling comma.
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That's it for my first pass. The Rambling Man (Keep wearing the mask...) 18:14, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for review. Will get started on it as soon as I can.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 18:44, 1 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@The Rambling Man: All issues have been addressed. Can you take another look. Thanks. --Doug Coldwell (Get vaccinated! ) 13:15, 2 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Copyright contributor investigation and Good article reassessment

This article is part of Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations/20210315 and the Good article (GA) drive to reassess and potentially delist over 200 GAs that might contain copyright and other problems. An AN discussion closed with consensus to delist this group of articles en masse, unless a reviewer opens an independent review and can vouch for/verify content of all sources. Please review Wikipedia:Good article reassessment/February 2023 for further information about the GA status of this article, the timeline and process for delisting, and suggestions for improvements. Questions or comments can be made at the project talk page. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]