Talk:Henry Gerber House

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A fact from Henry Gerber House appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 September 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Society for Human Rights, America's first LGBT rights organization, was founded in Chicago's Henry Gerber House, now a National Historic Landmark?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Henry Gerber House.

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I'd like to review this for DYK but I think the article has a lot of material that is irrelevant to the house. I would like to delete stuff about subjects that are not relevant to the house and how it was involved in LGBT history. All the history of LGBT in America is covered elsewhere. OK? Victuallers (talk) 09:22, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I have sectioned those from above -- if you want to cut some, I think that is possible (per

WP:SUMMARY), but it would be impossible from a notability standpoint to "delete all." It's named for Henry Gerber, and it is not really all that notable as one of a block of similar houses. Alanscottwalker (talk) 12:04, 16 September 2015 (UTC) (just FYI, as far as the DYK nom goes, it will still need 5x expansion after your cuts, if any Alanscottwalker (talk) 12:27, 16 September 2015 (UTC))[reply

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I tried to limit it when I was writing to that which was relevant to the house and that which gives that material context. i.e., I think it's relevant that the gay culture Gerber saw in post-WWI Germany influenced his decision to start a similar advocacy group upon his return to the U.S. Could we have some specific examples of what we ought to cut? Daniel Case (talk) 16:29, 16 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]