Template:Did you know nominations/Carl Moritz (architect)

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The result was: promoted by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:34, 6 August 2013 (UTC)

Carl Moritz (architect)

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... that the architect Carl Moritz designed in Cologne the opera house (1902) and a bank building (pictured)?

Reviewed: Charles Agnew
Comment: Even if "Dr. Blofeld" doesn't want credit, he started the article. I would like to show the impressive opera house from the German Wikipedia, but am not sure about the license.

Created by Dr. Blofeld (talk). Nominated by Gerda Arendt (talk) at 08:03, 21 July 2013 (UTC).

This is a nicely written and illustrated article. It is, however, rather short of references. In particular, most of the "Career" section is unsourced, and there are no references at all in the "Works" section. This needs to be fixed. I've also modified the hook slightly to improve the grammar. Prioryman (talk) 10:46, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

What can we do? de-article with book sources, book that I didn't read, so can't give page numbers. His works are buildings with articles, pictured. I looked for other sources and asked the author who started it to do the same, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 12:57, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

I'm not entirely sure what can be done, but until the Works section has more references (two of three paragraphs are unreferenced), by DYK rules this cannot be approved. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:35, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

As I am unhappily busy collecting evidence for arbcom, I have no more time for Moritz, sorry. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:22, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
I asked Dr. Blofeld, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:37, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

I added several refs for buildings, --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:45, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Comment. The article looks very well, but I was slightly confused initially at what makes him notable. The facts stated in the proposed hook and the article (he built many banks and other buildings) does not assert any notability. If he is the designer of Cologne Opera house, then it's a whole other story. But since the Cologne Opera house was inaugurated in 1957, I went to check the German page for answers. It appears that Carl Moritz designed the first opera house in Cologne in 1902 before it was destroyed in 1943. The present day Cologne Opera house was designed by someone else, and this could be confusing for readers. This was not explained at all in the English article and must be addressed.

Once this issue has been addressed, the article should be ready to go. I've proposed an alternative hook.

ALT1 ... that German architect Carl Moritz designed the first Cologne Opera house before it was destroyed in 1943? Alex Shih ^Talk 23:45, 4 August 2013 (UTC)

I like the hook idea but don't think we can substantiate "first", Cologne probably had something before 1902. I wonder if it says much about an architect that his building was destroyed without showing a picture of his style. There is an excellent image of that opera house in the German version, see above. I fixed the link to the architect in ALT1.

ALT2 ... that architect Carl Moritz designed an opera house in Cologne (opened in 1902, destroyed in 1943), the Opernhaus Wuppertal and theatres in Düren (pictured) and Stralsund? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:13, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Comment. What I meant to say was he designed the first theatre dedicated as a opera house for Cologne Opera, based on what I read in de:Oper Köln. I thought it would nice to mention that somewhere, but it's entirely up to you. AL2 should do the trick just as well. Alex Shih ^Talk 14:26, 5 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you. I tried to avoid the link as it presents the current house on top (which was recently pictured on DYK) and might be confusing to readers. The article tells about building, year and destruction. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:32, 5 August 2013 (UTC)