Talk:White House
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[edit]Is there a reason that neither the article prose nor the infobox makes any mention that the White House is a National Historic Landmark? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chris857 (talk • contribs) 09:46, February 22, 2013 (UTC)
Reason behind naming White House
[edit]When construction was finished, the porous sandstone walls were whitewashed with a mixture of lime, rice glue, casein, and lead, giving the house its familiar color and name. 223.191.33.155 (talk) 07:41, 28 June 2024 (UTC)
Collapsed navbox section for navboxes of 'Residents'
[edit]Was thinking of creating a collapsible navbox section entitled 'Residents' which, when opened, would include the navboxes of all the presidents since Adams in chronological order, as well as the few navboxes of first ladies. This would entail listing 'White House' on all of their navboxes in existing sections (other homes of presidents and first ladies are already included on their navboxes, so this is an obvious gap in their 'homes' listing). As this will take a bit of time I wanted to run in by here first in case there is major opposition and the inclusion is reverted. Pinging CommonKnowledgeCreator, who has focused attention on U.S. presidential navboxes lately, for their viewpoint, and I'll also place a notice on the U.S. presidents Wikiproject page. Thanks for thoughts, approval/disapproval. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:47, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
- This addition seems obvious now, but came to mind a few minutes before posting the above when I saw Blair House correctly listed on {{Harry S. Truman}}'s navbox. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:05, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
- And...a technical problem. Post-NEIS at (WP:TLIMIT) says the collapsed template would be too large. Here's what I set-up but can't get it to collapse as two navboxes ('Residents '1800-1933' and 'Residents: 1933-present'). No idea why the second one won't show, it's the smaller of the two and works when it is placed above the first one, which itself then won't show. Please give the coding a look, thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 22:58, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
Will go with this to work around the software problem:
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