Template:Did you know nominations/New York Gold Exchange


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:12, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

New York Gold Exchange

 * ... that business historian Robert Sobel has described the New York Gold Exchange as "the most informal and certainly the wildest market in American history"? Source: Quote in Robert Sobel, The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market (1965; Beard Book ed. 2000), pp. 75-76.
 * ALT 1: that Congress passed a law banning the New York Gold Exchange in 1864&mdash;but repealed it two weeks later? Source: John Steele Gordon, An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power (2004; Harper Perennial ed. 2005), pp. 198.  Replaced with ALT 1.5, below.
 * ALT 1.5: ... that an 1864 act of Congress resulted in the shutdown of the New York Gold Exchange&mdash;until the law was repealed two weeks later? Source: John Steele Gordon, An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power (2004; Harper Perennial ed. 2005), pp. 198.
 * ALT 2: ... that Samuel Spahr Laws, a manager of the New York Gold Exchange, invented a predecessor to the ticker tape machine? Source: Urs Stäheli, Spectacular Speculation: Thrills, the Economy, and Popular Discourse (Stanford University Press, 2013), pp. 197-98: "To help control these crowds, the manager of the Gold Exchange, Samuel Spahr Laws (1824-1921), devised the Laws Gold Indicator, a forerunner of the ticket-tape machine."
 * Reviewed: Bisaldeo temple

5x expanded by Neutrality (talk). Self-nominated at 20:11, 9 December 2016 (UTC).


 * , can you review this one for me? It's been lingering awhile. Neutralitytalk 18:35, 30 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:58, 12 January 2017 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg Expanded from 635 to 4271 bytes, and nominated one day after expansion began, satisfying length and date criteria. The fragment "The banishment of gold traders from the New York Stock Exchange" is partially incorrect, as source indicates it was gold trading that was banished, not specific traders. Source 3 states that "respectable merchants" used the market too, in addition to speculators; this is not mentioned in the article but probably should be. Everything else in the text is OK. Hook 1 is incorrect - the source states Congress banned gold speculation, a side-effect of which was the closing of Gilpin's; it did not ban the exchange itself. Original hook and ALT2 are sourced and of reasonable length. Overall, very minor tweaks need to be made to get this promoted. Mind  matrix  19:18, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
 * I forgot to note that QPQ has been completed. Mind  matrix  21:51, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Thanks,, for these thoughtful remarks. I've struck ALT 1 and offered a revised ALT 1.5 in its place. I've also made the minor tweaks to the article that you suggested. Neutralitytalk 22:01, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Updates to article are OK. All hooks are OK. Good to go. Mind  matrix  22:55, 18 January 2017 (UTC)