Talk:Temporary buildings of the National Mall

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Did you know... that temporary war buildings on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., were blamed for "producing a depressing air of slovenliness", but some remained standing for over half a century?

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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 MeegsC (talk) 12:51, 21 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

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Temporary buildings surrounding the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool

... that temporary war buildings on the National Mall were blamed for "producing a depressing air of slovenliness," but some remained standing for over half a century? Source: [1], p. 57

Reviewed: Ii antigen system

Moved to mainspace by John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) and Corker1 (talk). Nominated by John P. Sadowski (NIOSH) (talk) at 03:04, 25 February 2021 (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: Done.

Overall: Interesting article! GeneralPoxter (talk) 03:15, 26 February 2021 (UTC)Reply

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