Talk:William J. Dodd

message: Until recently, data on W.J. Dodd was scarce and difficult to verify, especially biographical information.
Likewise, a dearth of actual blueprints and building permit reports from the period before 1900 in Louisville has
naturally made many casual attributions of this or that structure to Dodd suspect and often they are no more than folklore or worse, a real estate agent's or a seller's attempt to enlarge the glamour of property without doing their own homework and provenance. The Chroniclerk.
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I got my data about Dodd designing the Chat. house on 4th Street from a house rehabilitation info banner in front of the blue house at the corner of 4th & Belgravia Ct. It states that Dodd designed the house for jeweler Joseph Wyrne. I can upload a picture of the banner if you want it. My landlord was also state that Dodd is the designer of the Chat. grouping. The Br3 02:32, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
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Sam Thomas died October 4, 2012.
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/louisville/obituary.aspx?pid=160294872#fbLoggedOut
Chroniclerk (talk) 17:20, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
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message: I reviewed this article, found it to be unencyclopedic in many ways and did quite a lot of re-organisation and some rewriting. 
*Many important facts were stated as phrases introducing a secondary point. More straightforward statements were needed like: Between 18** and 18** Dodd worked at City, State. 
* Some of the biographical material was not written in the past tense.  "Dodd is doing this and that" instead of "Dodd was doing this and that." 
* Words like "precise craftsmanship" which are accurately descriptive will generally get through, but if you use a word like "magnificent", "beautiful", and the like, they are always deleted as "peacock words" unless they are direct quotations, eg. Architectural historian Joanne Bloggs described the library as "one of the most magnificent architectural works of its era in this city".(ref)Joanne Bloggs, The Chigago Style, (2009)(/ref) 
* Concerning the lengthy notes under the thumbnails in the gallery. The speculation about the style and authorship were really too much. One reason is that there is no description whatsoever within the article itself of any building that Dodd is known to have designed. He style is not articulated for the reader. Therefore it is quite out of place to say that this building isn't in Dodd's usual style. Tell us, somewhere, what sort of buildings he designed! 
::POV. This is my point of view entirely. For stylistic reasons, I would say that the building is definitely Dodd or a close associate. Regardless of the fact that the designer is using a different architectural "vocabulary", the basic elements of the "language" are the same. 
I have made a fairly detailed edit summaries, describing why I have made each change. These can be found on the history page of the article. 
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