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A news item involving Hugh Leatherman was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 13 November 2021.

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A fact from Hugh Leatherman appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 July 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Hugh Leatherman effectively controls the state of South Carolina's budget?

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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 Desertarun (talk) 19:59, 1 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Hugh Leatherman effectively controls the state of South Carolina's budget? Source: "Leatherman has controlled South Carolina's budget for nearly two decades and influenced everything from the state's deal with Boeing to its investigation of the V.C. Summer nuclear project."
- ALT1:... that Hugh Leatherman is considered one of the most powerful politicians in South Carolina? Source: "Leatherman’s rise to the top of South Carolina’s power structure started on a farm in Lincoln County, N.C."

Reviewed: Yule Ranch

5x expanded by Muttnick (talk). Self-nominated at 19:02, 8 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

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

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - some close paraphrasing, see here

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I'm fine with accepting the article as it is, it would just be preferred if you could sort out some of the close paraphrasing. Thanks! Also, I find the main more interesting than ALT 1 Mcguy15 (talk, contribs) 01:41, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Mcguy15: I have corrected the close paraphrasing problem. The remainder of the warning is nothing I can undo as its just providing warnings about quotes and words like "General Assembly" and "Senator Pro Tempore." Thanks for the review! Muttnick (talk) 16:23, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Muttnick:

Looks good, thanks! Mcguy15 (talk, contribs) 16:26, 24 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]