Talk:St. La Salle Hall

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Contents 1 A Comment 2 Make location more prominent 3 GA on hold 3.1 GA passed 4 GA a year later 5 Good Article review

[edit] A Comment

The Japanese forces took possesion of the building and transformed it into a headquarters where the soldiers slept in the classrooms without paying rent. Is it just me, or does this seem somehow obvious? Manila was occupied by the Japanese, they occupied the building. Who were they going to pay rent to, and why would one think they would do such a thing? --Bfraga 02:17, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

At that time, the Brothers were still using the building for classes when they took over, perhaps that's why they thought that the Japanese should pay. When the Americans took over, they paid the Brothers for their occupation of the building according to the book i've read. --Mithril Cloud 02:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Make location more prominent

Hi. The physical location of the building should be featured more prominently, either in the opening sentence of the article or immediately afterwards. --67.190.121.213 03:19, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Something like this?

The St. La Salle Hall (Building code: L; also known as LS Building) is a four-storey neoclassical building that faces the busy Taft Avenue in the district of Malate in Manila. It is the first building on the campus of De La Salle University-Manila designed by Tomas Mapua in the late 1910s under the leadership of Br. Acisclus Micheal FSC. It was once used as the grade school and high school building back when De La Salle was still offering those levels. The building has a chapel on the second floor and a convent for the De La Salle Brothers at the fourth floor. It is currently occupied by the College of Business and Economics as well as the Graduate School of Business of De La Salle-Professional Schools, Inc. which will stay until August 31, 2006. The structure was severely damaged during the Allied liberation of Manila in World War II in the Philippines. After the war, the building was restored and underwent several changes.

--Mithril Cloud 06:34, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

That's much better, imho. I was referring more to the "macro" location (Manila, Philippines) than the actual thoroughfare the building is on, but this looks good to me. Thank you for your work.--67.190.121.213 08:38, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

No problem. :) --Mithril Cloud 08:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA on hold

This article will be put on hold (for 7 days) until these minor adjustments can be made :

1. Well written?: Pass

2. Factually accurate?: Pass

3. Broad in coverage?: Pass

4. Neutral point of view?: Pass (needs more information)

5. Article stability? Pass

6. Images?: Pass

Can there be different point of view for the opposition, coming from more sources. Can there also be a section for response/criticism/accpetation of the building to let people know how the building met the needs or was seen as part of the college. This also will give more references which the article lacks at that moment by having only one source/one point of view. Lincher 13:39, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Resources for the subject is quite scarce, but we will try to find more sources to add. --Mithril Cloud 14:09, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA passed

Nice work on rewriting some parts, adding some quotes and for including my comment in re-writing the article. Cheers, Lincher 11:26, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much! --Mithril Cloud 12:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] GA a year later

After reviewing the article, I've found it to have a few problems which might require it's GA status to be review. Namely, the almost complete lack of in-line citations, a complete lack of external links section, as well as a few typos (three-storey) is in the article a couple times. The article is also lacking in scope past 1927 or so. What is the building being used for more recently? This is mentioned briefly in the introduction, but nowhere else. Hopefully someone can find some time soon to address these issues, otherwise I'll nominate the article for Good Article review. Drewcifer3000 07:20, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good Article review

Since noone seems to be coming to the rescue of the article, I've nominated this article for Good Article review, which could result in a delisting of the article from GA status. Anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. Drewcifer 04:35, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

The result of the review was to keep the article listed as a GA. Archive of the discussion can be found here. Drewcifer 05:10, 31 August 2007 (UTC)