Talk:Gene Locklear

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A fact from Gene Locklear appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 July 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a painting by Major League Baseball player Gene Locklear was hung in the White House?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/July. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Gene Locklear.

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Did you know nomination

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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 07:40, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Gene Locklear

... that a painting by Major League Baseball player Gene Locklear (pictured) was hung in the White House?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Killing of Jerry Waller

5x expanded by Muboshgu (talk). Self-nominated at 18:51, 4 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Gene Locklear; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:42, 5 July 2023 (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: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Nice work with the expansion here! This nomination appears to meet all the criteria. QPQ done. Looks good to go! BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:18, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]