Talk:Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice
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Did you know nomination
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:33, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
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Ford Foundation Building
- ... that for several years, the Ford Foundation Building (pictured) was New York City's youngest landmark? Source: NY Times 2003
- ALT1:... that most of the windows of the Ford Foundation Building (pictured) could not be cleaned for two years because a New York state board would not allow it? Source: NY Daily News
- ALT2:... that the architect of the Ford Foundation Building (pictured) architect only visited it three or four times in the four decades after its completion? Source: NY Times 2012
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Turbopolsa
- Comment: more hooks pending
Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 19:20, 10 August 2020 (UTC).
- Epicgenius, I am fascinated by the Ford Foundation building so am excited to do this review. ALT1 really jumped out at me (even knowing how crazy NYC permitting can be) so this review if for that Alt:
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Hook eligibility:
- Cited:
- Interesting:
- Other problems:
- Two issues: 1) I'm a bit concerned by the difference between "the state of New York" in the hook and "The New York State Board of Standards." It wasn't the whole government holding up the window washing, just one Board. 2) the cited article says that the first two floors of windows could be washed, but not all of them. should "the windows" be replaced with "most of the windows"?
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QPQ: 
- Not done
Overall: QPQ needed and the two minor issues with the wording of the hook. once those are fixed this shoud be g2g. Found5dollar (talk) 00:48, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Found5dollar: Thanks for the review. I revised the hook accordingly. I had already done a QPQ when you reviewed this nomination, though. epicgenius (talk) 20:23, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
new ALT1 changes make this G2G. (sorry about the QPQ, I dont know why I didn't see that before....)--Found5dollar (talk) 21:02, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
