Talk:Revox B215/GA1

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{{GATable/item|1a|y|Well-written article that explains detailed technical information in an understandable way.

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{{GATable/item|1b|y|Well-composed article. The sections are appropriate and focused.

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{{GATable/item|2a|y|All statements are properly referenced.

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{{GATable/item|2b|y|There seem to only be a handful of sources listed in the Sources section (aside from the manufacturer's own publications).

• Feldman, Len (1986). "The Revox B215 — An Elegant Cassette Deck From Swiss Craftsmen". Modern Electronics (June): 15–20, 100.

:* Was able to find a pdf version of this volume on some relatively shady-seeming website, verified.

• Hirsch, Julian (1984). "Revox B710 MkII Cassette Deck". Stereo Review (Tape Recording and Buying Guide): 44–46.

:* Was able to find this one as well, from worldradiohistory.com, verified.

• Riggs, Michael (1983). "Revox's Pro-Am Cassette Deck". High Fidelity (February): 20–24.

:* Was also able to find this one on worldradiohistory. Verified.

• Roberson, Howard (1985). "Revox B215 Cassette Deck". Audio (USA) (July): 44–52.

:* Found this one on worldradiohistory as well, verified.

• Stark, Craig (1986). "Revox B215 Cassette Deck". Stereo Review (August): 40–44.

:* Found on worldradiohistory. Verified!

These sources seem good and solid to me. There are a bunch of references as well, which seem to supplement them well. I will AGF on the German sources because I don't feel like waking up my European buddies right now to have them read tape deck manuals from 1981.

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{{GATable/item|2c|y|Everything's backed up by sources.

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{{GATable/item|2d|y|Earwig's checker says it is fine, but there is a webpage with 90% text similarity; its page preview is entirely spam and tried to hijack my computer when I went to it. Taking the similar snippets and Googling them gave me a number of similar pages with malevolent auras that also tried to get me to download random executables: "Willi Studer was reluctant to diversify" was present on a page that scraped content from Wikipedia (including the "from Wikipedia" header). However, there is one passage that gives me pause: "Two other motors of the B, buried deep inside the mechanism, directly drive the cassette's reels. Motors, capstans and reel spindles are mounted on two diecast chassis plates, tightly bolted together; heads and pinch rollers are mounted on a moving diecast subchassis." This one appears on one of the spam sites, but seems to have been taken from a review somewhere (maybe a scan of an old magazine or a defunct forum)? I have no way to tell what's up here, and am going to look into it more closely.

Update, after some extensive investigation: there was one content scraping site that had a large amount of content duplicated from this article, claiming a publication date of 2012. However, combing all of the site's posts revealed one titled "can-t-upload-files-to-discord.html", purporting to be a guide to uploading files to Discord, that also claimed to be from 2012. But that app didn't exist until 2015! So I have concluded that this website is bullshit.

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| colspan="3" | 3. {{Wikipedia:Good article criteria/GAC|3}}:

{{GATable/item|3a|y|Comprehensive overview of the stereo's design, construction, performance, and the environment in which it lived (i.e. contrasted with the Nakamichi Dragon and other competitors). There's nothing I have further questions about, that relate to the B215.

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{{GATable/item|3b|y|Focuses very well on the B215.

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{{GATable/item|4|y|There are some parts where it seems quite fond of the deck, but its shortcomings are mentioned as well.

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{{GATable/item|5|y|Article is quite stable. No content disputes.

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{{GATable/item|6a|y|Images are all free and self-made.

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{{GATable/item|6b|y|The images are good, well-taken, clearly illustrate what they are of, and have good captions.

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