Talk:Kenneth Michael Trentadue

Kenneth Michael Trentadue was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 16, 2012	Good article nominee	Not listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on December 27, 2008.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that there is suspicion that the death in prison of Kenneth Michael Trentadue was related to the Oklahoma City bombing?

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Additional FOIA requests rejected

"Trentadue said he is seeking more tapes along with a variety of bombing-related documents from the FBI and the CIA. An FOIA request by Trentadue for 26 CIA documents was rejected in June. A letter from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which reviewed the documents, said their release "could cause grave damage to our national security."

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-27-okla-city-bombing-tapes_N.htm

Additions to the lede

I recently removed new additions to the lede by User:MothballX. For two reasons: 1) because they essentially recapitulated information found elsewhere in the article, and, perhaps more importantly, 2) because it is speculation. The article talks about the speculation and theorizing regarding the circumstances around Trentadue's death, but it's just that: unsupported conspiracy theorizing. Not that I think it has no place in the article! But I think in general it is best to cleave to WP:LEDE, and let the facts speak for themselves. The lede should represent factual, verifiable information. Ford MF (talk) 05:00, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

According to WP:LEDE the lede is supposed to establish notability and provide a brief summary of the main points in the article. Prior to my additions it accomplished neither of these goals, now it does both. I have kept the intro NPOV. Everything I added to the introduction is supported by sources. Nothing there specifically says there was a conspiracy, just that some people believe there was and use the two other suicides as evidence of this. --MothballX (talk) 05:56, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Kenneth Michael Trentadue/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Hghyux (talk · contribs) 22:07, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Checklist 1

Not an obvious fail. ✗ Fail Hghyux (talk to me)(talk to others) 22:13, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Result

N Failed per WP:SNOW. Hghyux (talk to me)(talk to others) 22:13, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Summary

I ask that the nominator please read the good article criteria. Hghyux (talk to me)(talk to others) 22:13, 16 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]