Template:Did you know nominations/Danny Jones (politician)
- 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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:57, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
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Danny Jones (politician) edit
- ... that before he became mayor of Charleston, West Virginia, Danny Jones worked for a time as a gravedigger? Source: Sandy Wells, Mayor Danny Jones looks back on his eclectic life, Charleston Gazette-Mail (July 8, 2012): "He graduated last in his class at George Washington High School, worked as a bartender, bouncer and gravedigger, for starters, and served in Vietnam."
Created by Neutrality (talk). Self-nominated at 00:34, 2 October 2016 (UTC).
; source checked and the statement is definitely there. I'm not entirely sure this article would survive AFD—how "A politician who has received "significant press coverage" has been written about, in depth, independently in multiple news feature articles, by journalists" is interpreted tends to vary day-by-day by the AFD crowd—but as long as the article does exist this hook is perfectly valid. GTG. ‑ Iridescent 15:18, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
@Iridescent: you should provide a review that explicitly confirms that the five main DYK criteria have been met. Yoninah (talk) 18:37, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- Is that not implicit in the fact that I've not quickfailed it? (You do realise that Neutrality and myself can both reasonably be assumed to be aware of Wikipedia's policies and practices?) If you insist on wasting my time (and that of everyone who reads this) by jumping through a bureaucratic hoop, "1: This article was created on 1 October, within the past 7 days. 2: This article contains 3545 characters of readable prose, well above 1500. 3: The hook is cited inline and is verifiably in the reference provided. 4: The hook and the article in general confirm to Wikipedia's policies on verifiability and biographies of living people, and do not to the best of my knowledge violate copyright. 5: The nominator has reviewed a DYK nomination in turn". ‑ Iridescent 18:53, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- @Iridescent: Thank you. It helps the prep builders to know what you checked. Looking at the article, though, I wouldn't have passed it. Aside from the NPR and Huffington Post, all the sources are local. I would ask the page creator to come up with more sources to meet WP:GNG. Yoninah (talk) 19:48, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
- This clearly meets GNG as well as WP:NPOL. If nominated for AfD, it would almost certainly be a "speedy keep" in light of the numerous regional and national sources spanning 30 years. Neutralitytalk 20:55, 5 October 2016 (UTC)
Thank you, @Neutrality: you're right, this does meet WP:NPOL. Here is a full review: New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. Hook ref verified and cited inline. However, the QPQ you submitted does not mention checking any DYK criteria. This does not satisfy Wikipedia:Did you know#Eligibility criteria 5. Review requirement (QPQ): The review must address all five criteria listed here. Do you have another QPQ to submit? Also, we're now collecting hooks for the Halloween set. Would you like to include this there? Yoninah (talk) 20:41, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
- @Yoninah: Thank you: I've done a new full review for Template:Did you know nominations/Stanley Silverstein. I'm fine with including this in the Halloween batch. Thanks again! Neutralitytalk 23:12, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
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QPQ done, thanks. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 00:09, 27 October 2016 (UTC)