Template:Did you know nominations/United States federal government shutdown of 1980


 * 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:46, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

United States federal government shutdown of 1980

 * ... that the 2018 U.S. government shutdown is not the first shutdown to occur with one party controlling both the presidency and Congress—the 1980 government shutdown under the Carter administration was? Source:  and  establish there was an actual shutdown in 1980.  Who controlled Congress at what time is common knowledge; the 1980 shutdown occurred during the 96th Congress, which was controlled by Democrats.
 * Reviewed: Colette Lorand
 * Comment: The 2018 article is somewhat in flux due to the volume of edits, and is currently nominated for ITN. If these are problems, the bolding on it could be removed, with credit given for only the 1980 article. Update: the 2018 article was promoted at ITN, making it ineligible, so it has been unbolded.

Created by Antony-22 (talk). Self-nominated at 00:39, 22 January 2018 (UTC).


 * Symbol confirmed.svg 1980: New enough (Article created by Antony-22 on January 21, 2018), long enough (3,682 characters) "readable prose size", fully referenced. Hook fine, supported by online citation. But no QPQ.   Hawkeye7   (discuss)  03:07, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Symbol delete vote.svg 2018: New enough (Article created by Antony-22 on January 20, 2018), long enough (9,874 characters) "readable prose size", fully referenced. Hook fine, supported by online citation (although it only needs to be in the one article). Nominated for ITN, but not there yet. But no QPQ.   Hawkeye7   (discuss)  03:07, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we should have a navbox for US government shutdowns?  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  03:07, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick review! Two QPQs provided.  Template:U.S. deficit and debt topics actually already has a listing of the shutdowns that have articles.  Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 04:48, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Good to go then.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  05:42, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Two updates: the 2018 article was promoted at ITN so I'll remove the bolding/credit for that article (and take back one of the QPQs for later). Also, there's discussion going on at Talk:United States federal government shutdown of 2018 about this fact, and I'd like that to be resolved before this hook is promoted.  If it looks like it will drag on, I'll propose another hook.  Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 18:09, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Sure. I have altered the icon to avoid confusion.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  21:21, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

I don't think this is going to be resolved quickly. I'd like to use the following hook instead which should be uncontroversial. Antony–22 (talk⁄contribs) 00:56, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ALT1: ... that during the first U.S. government shutdown in 1980, the Carter administration dispatched U.S. Marshals to Federal Trade Commission facilities to enforce the shutdown? Source:
 * Symbol confirmed.svg QPQ done. ALT1 verified. Good to go.  Hawkeye7   (discuss)  02:23, 10 February 2018 (UTC)