Talk:Sam Kee Building/GA2

initial checks

• Earwig and authorship is fine.
• File:Sam Kee Building, 23 May 2024.jpg Y
• File:Sam Kee Building side view, 16 May 2024.jpg Y
• File:Sam Kee Building lot before and after.png Y
• File:Sam Kee Building, Pender Street at Carrall (Dec. 1937).jpg Y
• File:Skinny Building, 2015-03-10.jpg Y

• Minor issue, but I think the 2015 is a typo. The file information and metadata states it was taken on 10 March 2014, not 2015. – Fixed. Yue🌙

Lead

• British Columbia, Canada, and Pennsylvania should not be linked per MOS:OVERLINK. –  Done. Yue🌙
• The reference used in the infobox to cite the alternative name Jack Chow Building calls it the Jack Chow Insurance Building. – Fixed. Yue🌙
• Chang bet a business associate that he could construct a building on the land that remained, and the Sam Kee Building was completed a year later. The comma should be removed. –  Done. Yue🌙

Architecture

• Is it possible to find the length of the sign? The source doesn't state its length and it isn't quite clear in the picture whether it really is wider than the building. – I couldn't find a measurement online or in the city archives. Do you want to take the source's word for it or remove that sentence? Yue🌙
• Spite house and Vancouver City Council should be linked. –  Done. Yue🌙
• In 1998, when the fee for the windows was waived by Vancouver City Council, the fees were CA$260 for the windows and CA$2,500 for the basement. It doesn't really make sense to include the basement fee in this sentence, given that it is talking about the waiving of the window fees. – Expanded the sentence into a paragraph. Yue🌙

Background and prelude

• established a branch in Vancouver in 1907, with the goal of expelling Asians from the city. Remove comma. –  Done. Yue🌙
• Consider changing Asiatic Exclusion League to Vancouver Asiatic Exclusion League to follow the source and linking to Asiatic Exclusion League#Canada. –  Done. Yue🌙
• successfully petitioned Vancouver City Council change to successfully petitioned to the Vancouver City Council – Adjusted. Yue🌙
• in order to render Chinese-owned properties unsuitable for commercial use Specify that it was properties along Pender Street. Also, shouldn't it be Chinese-owned lots, given that properties weren't built there yet? – Fixed. Yue🌙
• Not sure if Chang Toy was "influential". The sources used in that sentence don't really call him "influential", but "well-known". – Removed. Yue🌙
• running a large-scale import-export business that involved members of the Anglo-European business establishment It might just be me, but I find this sentence hard to understand, do you think you could reword it slightly? –  Done. Yue🌙

Construction and early years

• The basement contained a public baths. Fix typo. – Fixed. Yue🌙
• Consider including that Kennerly Bryan and William C. F. Gillam were Bryan & Gillam, given that you include the name of the firm in the infobox. –  Done. Yue🌙

Acquisition by Jack Chow

• Consider adding the cost of the renovation as stated in Ref 7. –  Done. Yue🌙

Current use

• I might have missed it, but which part of Ref 4 states that Rod gives tours of the building? – I probably forgot to put the proper citation there. I know for a fact that he gives tours because I went on one this year, but I can't find the source right now so I'll leave it out. Yue🌙

Recognition

• Link Guinness World Record. –  Done. Yue🌙

See also

• I think the see also section should be more similar to the Skinny Building's, which includes the links to its rival and spite house. – I did not include a link to either because of WP:NOTSEEALSO: "As a general rule, the "See also" section should not repeat links that appear in the article's body." Yue🌙

References

• You should link the names of newspapers in the reflist, seeing how some are linked and others and not. –  Done. Yue🌙
• Add the source date for [9]. –  Done. Yue🌙
• Is [3] and [5] reliable in this sentence: which were characteristic of many buildings in Chinatown at the time of its construction, in 1913? [5] states that it has bay windows whilst [3] states that it is characteristic. [3] is seemingly by an agency under the government so I'm not sure if that proves that it was characteristic. Does this source^[1] better explain why the bay windows were characteristic? – Adjective changed to "common" + more context added from source provided by reviewer. Yue🌙
• The rest of the sources are fine.