Talk:Edmund G. Love

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A fact from Edmund G. Love appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that author Edmund G. Love spent several years homeless, sleeping on the subway and interacting with other homeless people, leading him to write the book Subways Are For Sleeping?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 21:52, 29 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that author Edmund G. Love spent several years homeless where he slept on the subway and interacted with other homeless people, leading to his book Subways Are For Sleeping? Source: "Subways Are for Sleeping (1957) was based on Mr. Love's experiences in sleeping on New York City subway trains when he could not afford lodging." (Edmund G. Love, an Author, 78; Wrote 'Subways Are for Sleeping', The New York Times)
- ALT1:... that author Edmund G. Love spent several decades eating at over 6,000 restaurants in Manhattan by going alphabetically through the yellow pages? Source: "He has continued to write and, since 1952, he has been eating his way through the Manhattan Yellow Pages alphabetical restaurant listings, from ABC Carol Downtown Health Foods to Zorba." (6.000 Restaurants: Edmund Love's Odyssey, The New York Times)

Reviewed: Vickie Castro
Comment: Moved to mainspace with this edit.

Created by Silver seren (talk) and Thriley (talk). Nominated by Silver seren (talk) at 06:10, 13 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

I think ALT0 is more interesting but both are OK. (t · c) buidhe 09:35, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]