Template:Did you know nominations/United States Courthouse (Austin, Texas, 1936)


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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:55, 17 August 2016 (UTC)

United States Courthouse (Austin, Texas, 1936)

 * ... that Austin's historic federal courthouse may become a homeless shelter?


 * Reviewed: Kino Babylon

Created by Bryanrutherford0 (talk). Self-nominated at 16:14, 9 August 2016 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg Article newly created and nominated same day, no copy vio detected. Over 5.4 K of readable prose size. Subject passes both WP:GNG and WP:V being highly sourced. Hook is interesting and directly sourced from this., just chose a uniform date format in the article and then its good to go. — I B  [ Poke  ] 12:30, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay, I've adjusted the date format in the first citation (generated by Template:NRISref). Is that what you meant? -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 15:08, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Can you the mdy format of dates since this is a US related article? the dmy is used for UK and Asian articles mostly. — I B  [ Poke  ] 22:56, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Er, okay; they're all switched to mdy format now. Anything else?-Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 00:57, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Good to go. :) — I B  [ Poke  ] 09:26, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Symbol question.svg It's a great hook, but the cited source does not say that the courthouse may become a homeless shelter. The source states, "There are many needs among the population that might be addressed with that space, including but not limited to additional shelter, conversion to permanent supportive housing, worksite training, detox facility, medical respite, mental health treatment beds, etc." The text in the article says it better, that they would like to use it for "services for the homeless" (but that doesn't make a hooky hook). Yoninah (talk) 20:45, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hmm... It seems to me that the text you just quoted indeed says that the uses for the building might include "additional shelter" for "the homeless" (or a number of other possible things); isn't a building that provides "shelter" to "the homeless" a "homeless shelter"? The hook I suggested says that the building "may" become a homeless shelter (not that it "will"). That appears to me to be supported by the very text you refer to? (And yes, of course, I was trying to make it hooky and provocative, but if you have an alternative you think is more clear, then we should just use that.) -Bryanrutherford0 (talk) 20:16, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg OK, I agree. Sorry you're getting such a runaround from DYK reviewers :). Restoring tick per IndianBio's review. Yoninah (talk) 20:35, 16 August 2016 (UTC)