Talk:Embassy of the Philippines, Buenos Aires

A fact from Embassy of the Philippines, Buenos Aires appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 July 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the chancery of the Philippine embassy in Buenos Aires was previously a house, a hotel, and a retirement home?

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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 Yoninah (talk) 08:58, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The chancery, located at Calle Zapiola 1701 in northern Buenos Aires

... that the chancery of the Embassy of the Philippines in Buenos Aires was previously a house, a hotel and a retirement home? Source: several sources, primarily from the Boletín Oficial de la República Argentina, which are too many to list here; they all trace, in broad terms, how the property has changed hands since the 1940s.

Reviewed: Ipswich Street line
Comment: Aiming for this to be launched on August 21, which would be the 71st anniversary of Argentina–Philippines relations.

Created by Sky Harbor (talk). Self-nominated at 03:56, 18 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Some of the text in the last section of this article feels like it'd be more appropriate in Argentina–Philippines relations, but even were that text removed from this article, it would not impact the DYK criteria. The article is new enough, long enough, well cited, neutral, and appears free of plagiarism. The hook short enough, AGF on the citations because I don't read Spanish, and while it's not the most interesting one I've read, it's probably the best we can expect with the subject matter. A QPQ is present. I've added a tag to the image about the not 100% clear status of photos of buildings in Argentina, but Commons considers the image freely licensed, and it's used in the article, so this is good to go. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 07:08, 24 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, it's still another 7 weeks until the date you want, so I came by to promote it now. (Next time, please wait to post your special-occasion request until you're within our 6-week lead time.) I added a "citation needed" tag to one paragraph, per Rule D2. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 23:22, 30 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The problem with the one sentence that requires citation is that the only citation I can use is a personal blog which tracks down all the buildings designed by said architect. This link is also indicated on the Spanish Wikipedia article for the architect, and for some reason there doesn't seem to be anything about the building that would meet the traditional definition of WP:RS, so I wonder if citing that blog would be acceptable given the dearth of sources. (As for the request, it's fine: the date was more shoot-for-the-moon, but I'll keep that in mind, although waiting would mean I'm over the required one week for nominating it, yes?) --Sky Harbor ^(talk) 00:37, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Sky Harbor: we often use primary refs just to verify personal information, so I don't see why you can't add this blogspot. Alternately, you could comment out the sentence until after the main page appearance.
I don't understand your last sentence in your post. You nominated this on June 18 and asked for a run date of August 21, nine weeks hence. You could ask other editors for consensus to IAR at WT:DYK. However, the image is too dark at thumbnail size to be used in the image slot. Regarding future special occasion hooks, I was just suggesting that you nominate 6 weeks in advance, then post a notice at WT:DYK asking for a speedy review so it will run on the anniversary. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 12:59, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Clarification: I mean you would post the article 6 weeks in advance, and then nominate it and ask for a speedy review at WT:DYK. Yoninah (talk) 13:01, 1 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Noted. I'll very likely cite the blog to resolve that missing citation, although if the six-week rule is not as strict as you imply it is, I'll make sure to keep that in mind for any future DYK nominations that may involve anniversaries. --Sky Harbor ^(talk) 03:50, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

We need to move on this already. I commented out the "citation needed" line until after the main page appearance, or until you find a cite. Restoring tick per The Squirrel Conspiracy's review. Yoninah (talk) 08:56, 7 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Embassy moved to a new and permanent chancery

The embassy recently (last May) moved to a new and permanent chancery. See this article from the embassy "Philippine Embassy in Argentina Inaugurates New Chancery" and from the DFA. howdy.carabao 🌱🐃🌱 (talk) 13:00, 21 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

An update on this from my end: the Embassy updated the page (the edits were made by the mission's chargé d'affaires, judging from the username), but much of the old article was cut. I cleaned it up so we should be back on track. --Sky Harbor ^(talk) 00:14, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]