Talk:Builders Building

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Did you know... that the Builders Building (pictured) was built to house construction industries, would eventually house the Chicago Board of Education, and was renovated to be a hotel?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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) 05:14, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Builders Building

... that the Builders Building (pictured) was built to house construction industries, would eventually house the Chicago Board of Education, and was renovated to be a hotel? Source: NPS p. 6, Chicago Tribune
- ALT1:... that Skidmore, Owings & Merrill received a citation of merit for its renovation of Chicago's Builders Building (pictured)? Source: Gapp

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/St Mary's Church, Rolleston on Dove

Created by John M Wolfson (talk). Self-nominated at 17:29, 4 June 2020 (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: epicgenius (talk) 16:32, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I keep coming by to promote this, but I just don't find the hooks interesting. The first hook would benefit from using language other than building imagery—"building", "construction", "house". ALT1 is a nice award but not terribly interesting to a broad audience. It's a nice image. Could you propose something a little more hooky to accompany it? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 10:51, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

How about ALT2:... that the Builders Building (pictured) has been associated with construction industries, the Chicago Board of Education, and a hotel?

I somewhat disagree that the content of ALT0 is boring (relative to the other hooks that appear on the Main Page) but am open to rewording it. – John M Wolfson (talk • contribs) 19:08, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that's not much different from ALT0. Restoring tick per epicgenius' review. Yoninah (talk) 19:45, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]