Talk:Flags at the White House

A fact from Flags at the White House appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Serbian flag was flown from the White House in 1918?

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Did you know nomination

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) 15:33, 27 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Artist's depiction of a Serbian flag flying over the White House in 1918

... that the Serbian flag was flown from the White House in 1918?
- ALT1:... that a Serbian flag was flown from the White House roof in 1918?
- ALT2:... that the only foreign flags to have ever flown over the White House are those of Serbia and France?^[1]

Created by Illegitimate Barrister (talk). Self-nominated at 17:37, 22 March 2020 (UTC).[reply]

@Illegitimate Barrister: The article is new enough for a DYK and passes everything. You only have 4 DYKS so you don't need a QPQ, but after this one you will need QPQ. Very interesting DYK since I thought that only the French flag had flown over the White House. - Jon698 (talk) 03:56, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

General eligibility:

New enough:
Long enough:
Other problems:

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:

Hi Jon698 & Illegitimate Barrister. I've altered the hooks to include bold links to the target article, please feel free to amend these. The article doesn't look to be long enough at present? I count 780 characters, whereas the requirement is for 1,500 characters. Possible avenues for expansion include discussion of the flying of the flag from half mast or discussion of Nixon's Proclamation 4000 which led to the flying of the flag 24/7 (apparently at the advice of his wife) and what the situation was before this? - Dumelow (talk) 10:29, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've went ahead and added some more info. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 18:19, 23 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Illegitimate Barrister. I count 1,192 characters of text in the current article. The minimum requirement in the DYK rules is for 1,500 characters - Dumelow (talk) 09:36, 24 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Dumelow: The character count now exceeds 1,500. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 14:09, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Illegitimate Barrister, the length is now above the minimum. Rest of review carried out by Jon698 above - Dumelow (talk) 11:19, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ "The Day When the Serbian and U.S. Flags Flew Together Over the White House". U.S. Embassy in Serbia. Retrieved March 22, 2020.

POW/MIA flag

Why no mention of the National League of Families POW/MIA flag? Andy Dingley (talk) 18:54, 25 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "The Day When the Serbian and U.S. Flags Flew Together Over the White House". U.S. Embassy in Serbia. Retrieved March 22, 2020.

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