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This building is one of many famous DC landmarks featured in the game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2. I was wondering if anyone would have any objections to adding a mention of this? WookMuff 00:42, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"Faux Norman style"?

There is nothing remotely Norman about this style, unless one considers any round and vaguely mediaeval-looking arches to be Norman. I think this phrase should be removed. The description of the architecture is good without it.----APW 14:05, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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I can't tell if citation [1] is accurate or not. The webpage is not currently loading, neither is anything under the subdomains "cr.nps.gov" or "tps.cr.nps.gov."

Using archive.org shows that this page went to "Paca, William, House," in Maryland. The citation states accessed in 2009, and the oldest snapshot is 2010. Either way, should be updated. - Silvanathecat (talk) 15:59, 21 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"...A quiet room for visitors to go." "Go..." what?

Under the heading "Description", the final sentence of the third paragraph reads "The West Wing and Range are now used as a quiet room for visitors to go." There appears to be at least one word missing. "...For visitors to go" what? -shopping? -to the toilet? -crazy? Can anyone explain what the intent of the editor who added this might have been, and perhaps how to complete the thought?
Bricology (talk) 01:24, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Bricology: The text was added in this edit from December 2009. There aren't any missing words. The literal meaning of the text is that "visitors [can] go [there]". It is an area that is not intended for any specific activities, other than a place to "take a break". Fabrickator (talk) 02:44, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

While the English is fine, we can easily drop “to go” and it would work even better. — HTGS (talk) 05:00, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

user:Fabrickator wrote "There aren't any missing words. The literal meaning of the text is that 'visitors [can] go [there]'."
There are missing words, when the text is made confusing or ambiguous by their absence. "Go" is ambiguous since it could refer to either a destination, as it presumably does in this case, or an exit. One can "go" from one part of a building to another; one can also "go" from the same part of that building to a destination away from the building. "Go" is also a verb, and it is uncommon to end an English sentence in an encyclopedia with a verb. The sentence should be corrected for legibility and syntax to either add "...as a quiet room for visitors to go to", or simply "...as a quiet room for visitors."
Bricology (talk) 19:41, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well this says that it's a "quiet room" ... and it indicates that you can go to this room, but it doesn't say when you can go. It doesn't say that you need to sign up. It doesn't say that you must go alone, nor does it specify an occupancy limit. We don't know the exact hours when it's open or if it's closed at particular times when the building is otherwise open.

Clearly, it's designated as a "quiet" room, so presumably, if you go there with somebody and others are present, you should be respectful of the "quiet" concept.

The idea that sentences rarely end with a verb, that would be due to the presence of a direct object or perhaps an adverb (a more "proper" usage would be something like "The quiet room is a room to which you can go."). What about "When it's lunchtime, the school cafeteria is the place you should go." As for encyclopedic tone, that is just another arbitrary explanation. We should be careful about inventing arbitrary rules or deriving rules based on statistics. Fabrickator (talk) 20:40, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]