Talk:Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building Designation Act

message: Is the fact that the bill contains text sourced from Wikipedia actually notable?
I doubt that Wikipedia mentions the specific sources of background information for most other bills, and I doubt that any other encyclopedia would include the fact that text for this bill was sourced from Wikipedia.
This seems to me to be unnecessary self-promotion of Wikipedia. Jibjibjib 12:16, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Was this article created specifically to incorporate the self reference to WP in the Congressional Record? The whole premise seems rather contrived. I think this article could be improved by refocusing it on the building itself, i.e. renaming it "Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building" or even "Barbosa Post Office" and including info on the building itself (picture, history, architect, etc.). Then the act can be a subhead, and the self-ref a sub-sub-head. This would put things in better context, I think. The complete text of the act should be transwikied to Wikisource, and only the relevant portions paraphrased. I'm going to add the clean-up tag to the article. Dhaluza 18:06, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The concept was a good idea and I went to work on it, but here is the situation.
1.  The Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building is not a significant building in itself and there are absolutely no references or sources as to its history or importance.
2. There no images of the building.
3. An Act designating a Postal office building with the name of a historical figure in itself is not considered a significant event since there are thousands of those.
4. However, the Jose Celso Barbosa Post Office Building Designation Act is deemed significant since it  maybe the first time that material from Wikipedia has been deemed important enough to have been included in a U.S. bill signed by the President of the United States. (there is no evidence that any other Wikipedia article has had this distinction.) 
5. The article is about the Bill and about the fact mentioned in #4 and not about the building. All available information has been placed and sourced as required by required by Wikipedia policy. Tony the Marine 22:12, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Scope

message: I just noticed that the biography they used from Wikipedia was mentioned on the Congressional Record but not on the bill. Here is the Congressional Record:  which shows clearly a verbatim copy of Wikipedia's biography. However, here's the bill per se:  which does not contain Wikipedia's biography. I assume this was an honest mistake from an editor per WP:AGF, which, I assume is unfamiliar between the difference of a Congressional Record and a bill. —Ahnoneemoos (talk) 04:57, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Biography was on Congressional Record not on the bill

message: The recent AfD for this page was closed as merge. I've redirected it to José Celso Barbosa#Recognition, where the post office, its naming, and Wikipedia's role are all described. It doesn't appear that there's anything to merge in this case, but of course the page history remains accessible for anyone who is interested in performing a proper merge. --BDD (talk) 22:56, 3 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirected