Template:Did you know nominations/Federal Real Estate Board


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The result was: promoted by Alex ShihTalk 15:26, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Federal Real Estate Board

 * ... that the United States Federal Real Estate Board was created by Presidents Warren Harding and Franklin Roosevelt? Source: "The principles underlying the establishment of these boards and appointments of coordinators may be found in the executive order of November 8, 1921" - Annual Report of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget to the President. (AND) "That there should be constituted a Federal Real Estate Board composed of..." - Message to Congress Establishing the Federal Real Estate Board Jan 1939
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Red Brook (Stony Brook)

5x expanded by MB (talk). Self-nominated at 03:42, 29 July 2017 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg This article is a fivefold expansion and is new enough and long enough. The article is neutral and free from close paraphrasing, as far as I can see. A QPQ has been done (but not signed). I am puzzled about the Board and whether the hook is satisfactory. The Board seems to have been established in 1922 but there is no mention of it being abolished. I think this needs clarification in the article. Then the Board was re-established in 1939 under the same name but for a different purpose, and abolished in 1951. If the first board was abolished at some time, then there were two boards with identical titles, so I think the hook needs rewording. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:58, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * , What is in the article is everything I could find. The board was established first during the 1920s with the purpose of saving government spending on buildings. The last mention I found of it was in 1927. During the great depression and the Roosevelt administration, everything changed and the government was spending massively on stimulus and jobs programs. So I don't find it surprising that the board ceased to function. I doubt it continued through that era or that it still existed when the 1939 board was formed. But I don't have a source that says anything about how the first board ended. With the aftermath of Black Friday and the depression - perhaps its end was informal as the Federal government was focused on the New Deal programs. So I can't really clarify the article - I obviously can't add this speculation. MB 17:37, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't like ALT0 because it implies that it was a joint creation by the two presidents. Could we have ALT1 then? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:05, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * ALT1 ... that Presidents Warren Harding and Franklin Roosevelt each created the Federal Real Estate Board?
 * OK with me; it is almost the same. MB 22:37, 9 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Notifying . MB 23:41, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg I'm not meant to approve my own hook, but seeing that it does not introduce any new facts, it should be OK. Good to go with ALT1, striking ALT0. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:10, 12 August 2017 (UTC)