Hartland Covered Bridge is currently an Art and architecture good article nominee. Nominated by B3251_(talk) at 00:30, 1 July 2024 (UTC)

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Short description: Covered bridge in New Brunswick, Canada

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Suggestions For Improvements

It would be nice to explain why it was covered. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.15.92.113 (talk) 17:13, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Somerville in Canada

The wording: "It crosses the Saint John River from Hartland to Somerville in Canada" suggests to me the possibility that Hartland is not in Canada.

Since it is in Canada (or at least it used to be) how about the wording: "It crosses the Saint John River between Hartland and Somerville in New Brunswick, Canada." Wanderer57 (talk) 20:03, 4 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 13 September 2019

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The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:37, 21 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hartland Bridge → Hartland Covered Bridge – Reliable sources use this name more often than just "Hartland Bridge." See: Tourism New Brunswick, Town of Hartland, CBC, and the official name of the National Historic Site is "Hartland Covered Bridge." Sharper {talk} 23:43, 13 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Support Common name.--Auric talk 10:29, 14 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Hartland Covered Bridge/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: B3251 (talk · contribs) 00:30, 1 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Rollinginhisgrave (talk · contribs) 06:21, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll review this page. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 06:21, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

General Comments

I'll be adding notes as I go. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 07:00, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think the prose is unfortunately not up to the standard required by GA, particularly around concision. I've listed some problems below, and I'd like to see them addressed within a week before moving forward. I want this article to get to GA. If you need help with addressing these issues please ask, because I am here to help. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 08:03, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Rollinginhisgrave Of course. You've made great observations in this review already and I'll make sure to address your concerns soon. Thanks, B3251_(talk) 12:17, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Prose and content

, otherwise known as Main Street) unnecessary detail, not notable enough to be included in topic article.
Before the bridge, crossing the Saint John River in the area was previously done by ferry: "previously done" redundant
Before the bridge -> "Historically in the area,"
The need for a bridge in Hartland emerged as a political issue in the province remove, redundant.
among other improvements to infrastructure irrelevant
the establishment of redundant
took place -> began
In a newspaper dated May 13, 1896, Dibblee clarified that "if we could not get a grant for the Hartland bridge I would go into opposition." We have already said Dibblee was advocating for the bridge, this is repeating it. If the information is to be integrated, Dibblee can be said to have strongly advocated.
At the time, $400,000 was allocated template:inflation as it's not clear if this is a significant amount
~~A letter to the editor for the Hartland Advertiser dated December 22, 1897, highlighted the Hartland bridge issue being -> "in 1997, the Hartland bridge was"~~
On October 9, 1899, the Hartland Bridge Company issued a notice stating that they have deposited plans with the Minister of Public Works (then-Henry Emmerson) to build the bridge.[13] Later that month, a public notice for an invitation to tender issued by the Hartland Bridge Company dated October 19, 1899, appeared in The Royal Gazette on October 25, calling for contractors to submit sealed tenders for a bridge crossing the Saint John River in Hartland to be constructed. Tenders were to be marked "Tenders for the Hartland Bridge" and were due November 20, the following month.

Who is the Hartland Bridge Company?

~~issued a notice stating that they have~~ Unless you think they didn't submit plans, there's no reason to include this.

Who the Minister of Public Works was is too detailed.

Same with the next bit, attribution is unnecessary unless you don't believe them. It's fine to just say an invitation to tender for construction of the bridge was released on October 19, 1899 by the Hartland Bridge Company. Maybe if you want to, say they had a month.

I won't be going through the whole article like this unfortunately, as I have other nominations to attend to, and I can't rewrite the whole article. I hope you can apply these principles, of the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct to the rest of the page. The page has a particular issue with concision, giving many unnecessary details. Please perform a copyedit keeping the WP:GACR in mind, and ping me when you're done so I can review; please ask as many questions as you need while you work, but I won't be able to keep the review open if after my final review I feel the article is still a long way from the criteria, per WP:GAFAIL. Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 16:48, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sources

Hartland Hill Bridge Road listed sources disagree over what to call this. Hartland Bridge Hill Road appears more reliable.
Town of Hartland isn't RS given it's marketing the bridge

Rollinginhisgrave (talk) 07:00, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Rollinginhisgrave I've made most changes, I'll continue on if anything else is needed but I wanted your approval first. Please let me know what you think! B3251_(talk) 16:22, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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