Talk:James R. Shepley
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 | A fact from James R. Shepley appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 September 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination edit
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 18:20, 30 August 2020 (UTC)
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- ... that James R. Shepley coined "Merrill's Marauders" as a reporter, wrote inaccurately about the hydrogen bomb as a book author, and birthed HBO as an executive? Source: see footnotes 1,2, and 9 for the first part, 18 and 19 for the second part, and 7 and 34 for the third part
Created by Wasted Time R (talk). Self-nominated at 23:15, 12 August 2020 (UTC).
- Comment: The DYK comes across as a three-ring circus, and while "inaccurately" appears to be true, that phrase does not make me want to click to the article. Consider proposing alternative DYKs. David notMD (talk) 15:11, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
- Well, I think it's still worth trying to capture that he's one of the few reporters who became a successful publishing executive. So how about:
- ALT1: ... that James R. Shepley coined "Merrill's Marauders" as a reporter and birthed HBO as an executive?
- Or if the two-ring circus is too much, each of the individual items can be expanded:
- ALT2: ... that James R. Shepley came up with the name "Merrill's Marauders" when a group of reporters in India were thinking up names for the World War II long range penetration jungle warfare unit?
- ALT3: ... that James R. Shepley wrote controversially, and inaccurately, about the development of the hydrogen bomb?
- ALT4: ... that James R. Shepley has been called "the father of" HBO?
- Or the last could be preceded by a bit of the first:
- ALT5: ... that World War II war correspondent James R. Shepley has been called "the father of" HBO?
- ALT5 is kind of hooky. Personally, I still think ALT0 has value. And ALT2 may be of interest to military history readers, of which WP has a lot. Wasted Time R (talk) 21:37, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
- Well, I think it's still worth trying to capture that he's one of the few reporters who became a successful publishing executive. So how about:
New enough, long enough, neutral, sources good and AGF, ALT5 is the best definitely. QPQ done. I would request a little copyedit though @Wasted Time R:, as there are a lot of quotes taken from the New York Times which is a copyvio proportion issue. VincentLUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 14:30, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Vincent60030: Thanks for the review and I'm agreeable to going forward with ALT5. Good point about the NYT obit quotes – I have replaced one with an alternate source and eliminated another. So now there are only two quotes from it, which I think should be okay. Wasted Time R (talk) 12:59, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
