Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Space Basis Act

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The result was keep‎ and move to Post Office Appropriation Act of 1916. Daniel (talk) 00:01, 28 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Space Basis Act[edit]

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Incomprehensible - perhaps they mean a volume basis? Chidgk1 (talk) 18:05, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Chidgk1 (talk) 18:05, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Shellwood (talk) 18:56, 7 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and move to Post Office Appropriation Act of 1916 (or 1917). Not incomprehensible. Satisfies GNG. This enactment (which is really a section of an Act) is not normally cited by its popular titles such as "Railway Mail Pay Act" and "Space Basis Act", but is often cited by its long title, its date (28 July 1916), its chapter number (it is part of chapter 261), each of the pages of the US Statutes at Large on which it appears (39 Stat 425 to 431) and/or each of the sections of the US Code where it is codified (at least partly, and possibly entirely, in certain sections of Title 39 of the United States Code, as far as I can see, particularly at sections 524 to 568 [1]): [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]. (So for example, you would search for "39 Stat 425", "39 Stat 426" and so on to 431; and you would search for "39 USC 524", "39 USC 525" and so on to 568; and you would run searches like this). However, this enactment is actually section 5 of the Act sometimes called the Post Office [Department] Appropriation Act [of 1916 or 1917] (passed in 1916 and relating to the fiscal year 1917) printed at 39 Stat 412 to 431, rather than a separate Act. It would be easier to write an article on the whole Act, which has more coverage and is actually an entire Act, rather than an individual section. (It also happens, amongst other things, to be the Act that created airmail in the USA: [10] [11] [12] [13] and (via the provision called the Space Basis Act) settled the long existing controversy about the payment of mails: [14] [15]). James500 (talk) 05:30, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Wow you certainly know this subject - go for it Chidgk1 (talk) 06:50, 12 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and move per James500. Also mentioned in the 1916 Annual Report of the Long Island Rail Road. BD2412 T 00:44, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 23:16, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Transportation-related deletion discussions. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 00:05, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:10, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and move per @James500's great work above. As Chidgk1 put it, "Wow you certainly know this subject"! Can you add some of this to the article or the talk page?

--A. B. ^{(talk • contribs • global count)} 00:39, 22 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Keep and move per James500. S5A-0043^Talk 00:57, 24 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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