Talk:Brunswick, Georgia

Brunswick, Georgia was a Geography and places good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. 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
August 13, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
January 20, 2009	Good article nominee	Not listed

Current status: Former good article nominee

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Plane Crash

Note at the bottom of the page indicates that Davis Love Sr. did not die in plane crash. However, the writer of the note did not edit the page to remove the reference. Although I am a resident of Brunswick/Glynn County (and was at time of crash), I do not recall coverage mentioning Mr. Love. I am editing the page to remove the reference, since it is in doubt.

I would hope Brunswick might be known for something other than the plane crash.

WCFrancis 18:58, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I discovered a reference to the death of Davis Love II, the father of Davis Love III, at the PGA tour web site.

Davis Love III Biographical Info

The page is the biographical page of David Love III. It references his father's tragic death in a plane crash in 1988. The ASA crash was in 1991. It is possible that Davis Love, III's grandfather (Davis Love, Sr) was on the plane with John Tower, but I have yet been able to find a list of the passengers of the flight.

There were two different plane crashes. The one Davis Love the III was on left out of St. Simons Island to Jacksonville, (1988) not sure of the airline. The ASA flight was coming into Brunswick, GA from Atlanta (1991).

WCFrancis 20:55, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

School info

I would like to know the source for the cited reasons for Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) probation. I suggest including SACS in the text, if this Board of Education info remains.
WCFrancis 21:04, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sidney Lanier Bridge Tower Height

The plan page from GADOT dated Aug 96 showed elevation at the top of the support towers to be 460 feet. However, the GADOT web site shows the elevation to be 480 feet. Barring additional info, I changed it to reflect the web site info, on the theory that it was entered more recently and may reflect design changes after Sept 96. -WCFrancis 16:00, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Another page on the GADOT site states "The towers are 486 feet tall from the top of the footing to the top of the tower." -WCFrancis 16:26, 3 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

small edit

I edited out the word "tasty" from the bottom of the first paragraph. Seeemed like editorializing. --Coryma 15:54, 13 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Including Link to the Travel Guide

Hello, i would like to suggest to link to http://brunswickandthegoldenisles.destinations2discover.com/?site=v2d which is a destination Guide sponsored by Brunswick and the Golden Isles Conventions and Visitors Bureau. This guide features monthly updated the best events from the CVB Homepage: http://www.bgivb.com/ in a more user friendly format. The CVB also just recently set up a Kiosk System on the Welcome Center of the I-95 with links to this travel Guide. The Touch Screen optimized Page which the Kiosk accesses is: http://www.iti-marketing.com/BGICVBKiosk/BGICVBKioskFinal.html Please let me now what you think about this Website. Wavetravel 15:25, 17 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Brunswick, Georgia/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Great job improving the article thus far, however, it does not yet meet Good Article criteria for the following reasons:

Sourcing is thin. Every date, statistic, and number should have a citation. Also, any facts that are controversial or likely to be contested, such as the fact that Glynn Academy is the second-oldest high school in Georgia, need to be cited as well. Per WP:VERIFY, references should be from reliable sources such as published books, magazines, newspapers, and reliable websites such as government sources, historical associations, etc.
References also have to be formatted properly. An easy way to do this is to use this Wiki Reference Generator. All references should have at least a title, publisher (or work, if a newspaper, magazine, etc.), and access date.
Per WP:LEAD, try to avoid citations in the lead. Any information provided in the lead should be presented in the main article with a citation.
Miscellaneous and trivia sections should be avoided. It's best to find a way to incorporate this information into the main text or just leave it out.
Per WP:USCITY, The article is missing information on Culture and Sports/Recreation. Is there nothing unique or historic in the town? Since it's a coastal city I imagine there are beaches and water recreation, correct? If so, those should be mentioned.
The Superfund site information should probably be provided under Geography.

The article will fail GA for now, but please renominate when the above issues are resolved. Best, epicAdam (talk) 17:20, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review (2nd)

This review is transcluded from Talk:Brunswick, Georgia/GA2. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Hello there! Here is my critique of Brunswick, Georgia: GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

Is it well written?
A. The prose is clear and concise, and the spelling and grammar are correct:
The quality of writing in this is very high. There are no glaring grammatical or spelling errors, but there is quite alot of grammatical redundancy. Try to avoid using vauge terms like "also", "several", "many", “some”, “a variety/number/majority of”, “a few”, “any”, and “all”. These are often unnecessary and redundant - For example, "Brunswick is ~~also~~ the center of Georgia's shrimp and crab industry; the city was ~~once~~ called The Shrimp Capital of the World due to the many wild shrimp harvested in its local waters." (See also Tony1's redundancy exercises.) This makes for a more punchy, factual, professional encyclopedia. It's at pass level here, but for FA a sure fail.

B. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation:
Broadly the article is mos compliant. However there are a couple of fairly minor formatting issues. The two most striking issues relate to WP:OVERLINK and WP:EGG, but also enboldening and italics:
1. There is alot of overlinking of full dates. "Dates (years, months, day and month, full dates) should not be linked, unless there is a reason to do so." It's unlikely readers will need to navigate to articles like February 22 from here.
2. In the lead "The Shrimp Capital of the World" is italicized, but it's not a human work, and instead should perhaps be in quotation marks (see WP:ITALICS).
3. There are alot of instances of pipelinking local articles to broader terms. This is particularly noticable and problematic in the lead. Phrases like "Its metropolitan area", should be changed to "The Brunswick metropolitan area" per WP:EGG (I thought I was going to navigate to the main metropolitan area article). Another example is "during the Civil War", when "during the American Civil War" would have more context to a non-US reader like myself. Same goes for "colonies" -> "Thirteen colonies". On the flipside, please check that specific articles are not pipelinked with a broader term, whilst where a specific article exists, please direct us to it (in Demographics, change "census 2000" to "the 2000 United States Census").
Is it verifiable with no original research, as shown by a source spot-check?
A. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline:
Referencing appears to be very good, however, there are several problems with external links. Have a look at this tool. All content needs to be verifiable at GA level, so this is a barrier to success.

B. Reliable sources are cited inline. All content that could reasonably be challenged, except for plot summaries and that which summarizes cited content elsewhere in the article, must be cited no later than the end of the paragraph (or line if the content is not in prose):

C. It contains no original research:

D. It contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism:
Is it broad in its coverage?
A. It addresses the main aspects of the topic:
No problems here for a GA pass, but I'm wondering if there is any known history of what was happening in Brunswick before it was founded? Perhaps something about American Indian activity? Ancient geological events? A sentence or two would suffice IMHO.

B. It stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style):
Focussed, yes. But quite U.S.-centric in parts, a major criticism of Wikipedia. For example, "incorporation"? Could this be explained? Is "city" status honorific in this part of the world? Does it have any value or change anything for the inhabitants of Brunswick, such as self governance?
Regarding "was founded in 1771 by the Province of Georgia and incorporated on February 22, 1856", can places in the US only be incorporated as a city? if not, then city should be mentioned too in the lead.
Is it neutral?
It represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to each:
Is it stable?
It does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute:
Is it illustrated, if possible, by images?
A. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid non-free use rationales are provided for non-free content:
No problems here, however, free-to-use images should generally be moved to Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons. Having them here at Wikipedia limits their use to the English language encyclopedia only. This isn't a barrier to GA, just good practice for the good of the project.

B. Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions:
Overall:
Pass or Fail:
I'd say this is almost at WP:GA standard. Just a couple of small issues need sorting first. As such this article is placed on hold. Good luck with improving this article!

--Jza84 | Talk 13:38, 5 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there. It's been a few weeks now and no sign of any activity to fix up the aforementioned issues. As such, unless I hear otherwise, I plan to move the article from "On hold" status to a GA fail within the next 24 hours or so. --Jza84 | Talk 16:53, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Terribly sorry to have had to fail this. I haven't had any indication this is going to be picked up, and with the progress of this article unclear, and issues with MOS and verifiability, I have failed Brunswick, Georgia against the GA-criteria. I'm confident this article can hit GA in the future should these issues be addressed. Good luck, --Jza84 | Talk 18:02, 20 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Howard Coffin Park

Is Howard Coffin Park named after Howard E. Coffin? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 04:26, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it's not named after the Michigan senator. I'm going on out a little bit of a limb but this [1] makes me fairly certain that it's the right Howard Coffin. Any Brunswick Wikipedian care to take the dog for a run and look for a plaque at the park? --Wtshymanski (talk) 04:37, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, it must be right. ~~His article gives no mention of a connection to Brunswick,~~ but the one you link to says "also known for his development of coastal Georgia, especially Sapelo Island and Sea Island)." I've been there a few times - I'll try to check it out sometime, but for now I think you are right. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 05:05, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A Liberty Ship built in Brunswick was named for Howard E. Coffin - I suspect there's a stronger linkage than that, but I've only been to Atlanta once for 20 hours so did not soak up a lot of Georgia history in that time. A midnight Web search didn't give a "History of Brunswick Parks" on the city's Web site. --Wtshymanski (talk) 14:30, 8 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hercules changes hands

In 2009, Hercules, Inc. was sold to TorQuest and renamed Pinova, Inc. In 2005, it was acquired by Symrise. In November 2016, it was announced that a French company called Dérivés Résiniques et Terpéniques (DRT) had purchased the business for $150 million. ^[1] JenniferRSong (talk) 23:41, 31 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ http://goldenisles.news/news/local_news/pinova-sold-to-french-company/article_ee86acff-fc40-5430-be60-5bc446b50fe1.html

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