Talk:Home Life Building

Home Life Building has been listed as one of the Art and architecture good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: October 30, 2020. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Home Life Building appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 September 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Postal Telegraph Building contained the first electric elevators, commissioned by Frank J. Sprague?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Home Life Building.

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Latest comment: 4 years ago5 comments3 people in discussion

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 Amkgp (talk) 10:20, 13 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Home Life and Postal Telegraph Buildings

... that plans for the Home Life Building were changed midway through construction after an adjacent bank building started tilting into the building site? Source: NY Times
- ALT1:... that the contrasting designs of the Home Life and Postal Telegraph Buildings (pictured) led one critic to say, "either would be better were the other away"? Source: Real Estate Record
- ALT2:... that the Postal Telegraph Building contained the first electric elevators, commissioned by Frank J. Sprague? Source: Time

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Times Are Racing
Comment: I will definitely come up with more hooks later. The picture works best with ALT1.

Created by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 22:57, 23 August 2020 (UTC).Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: - Not done
Overall: Just waiting on the QPQ. I prefer ALT0 followed by ALT2, as they are more interesting than ALT1. Sounder Bruce 06:32, 27 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

@SounderBruce: Thanks for the review. I've done a QPQ now. epicgenius (talk) 15:03, 27 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

Looks good to go, then. Sounder Bruce 18:22, 27 August 2020 (UTC)Reply

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