Talk:William Post (businessman)

A news item involving William Post (businessman) was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 20 February 2024.

Wikipedia

Biography

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles

Food and drink

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Food and drinkWikipedia:WikiProject Food and drinkTemplate:WikiProject Food and drinkFood and drink articles

???

This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Food and Drink task list:

To edit this page, select here

Here are some tasks you can do for WikiProject Food and drink:

Help bring these Top Importance articles currently B Status or below up to GA status: Agaricus bisporus (i.e. mushroom), Beef, Bread, Curry, Drink, Food, Ham and eggs, Soy sauce, Sushi, Yogurt
Bring these Top Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Beer, French cuisine, Sugar
Bring these High Importance articles currently at GA status up to FA status: Apple, Burger King, Fish
Participate in project-related deletion discussions.
Delete unrelated trivia sections found in articles. Please review WP:Trivia and WP:Handling trivia to learn how to do this.
Add the {{WikiProject Food and drink}} project banner to food and drink related articles and content to help bring them to the attention of members. For a complete list of banners for WikiProject Food and drink and its child projects, select here.
Provide photographs and images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of food
Consider joining this project's Assessment task force. List any project ideas in this section

Note: These lists are transcluded from the project's tasks pages.

Michigan

	Michigan portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Michigan, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of Michigan on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.MichiganWikipedia:WikiProject MichiganTemplate:WikiProject MichiganMichigan articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

United States: 50,000 Challenge

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States articles
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
	This article was created or improved during this WikiProject's 50,000 Challenge, which started on November 1, 2016, and is ongoing. You can help!

It is requested that a photograph be included in this article to improve its quality.
The external tool WordPress Openverse may be able to locate suitable images on Flickr and other web sites.

Upload

A fact from William Post (businessman) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 March 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Bill Post helped invent the Pop-Tart?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/William Post (businessman).

Wikipedia

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 Bruxton talk 22:17, 1 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that Bill Post encouraged schoolchildren to "always do more than is expected" before giving them samples from his unlimited supply of Pop-Tarts? Source: "Mr. Post told his Pop-Tarts story to students into his 80s, his son said. He often talked about being the son of immigrants who could barely speak English, and challenged students to do their best and work hard. He would also bring them samples from his unlimited supply of Pop-Tarts.
Every time he went into a classroom, his son recalled, he would tell the students: “‘If you want to be noticed, always do more than is expected.’”" NY Times
Alt 1: ... that Bill Post helped invent the Pop-Tart? source: NY Times
Alt 2: ... that Bill Post and his team helped invent the Pop-Tart? source: NY Times
ALT3 ... that Bill Post, who helped invent Pop-Tarts, kept a supply in his car which had the license plate POPTART? The Telegraph Thriley (talk) 04:24, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kate Gleason

Created by Thriley (talk) and HistoryTheorist (talk). Nominated by Thriley (talk) at 02:57, 21 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/William Post (businessman); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

... Nice work, new, interesting, reads well. QPQ provided. Copyvio of the article in general is okay except for the hook bit which is very similar to the wording in the source even without the quote. Suggest reword a bit and maybe consider a hook on the lines of the co-inventor of pop tarts, Post showed that the icing does not melt when they are heated, or something like that. Whispyhistory (talk) 07:54, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Whispyhistory: created concise hook that should address problem. ❤History Theorist❤ 07:14, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you... can you make it clear in the hook and in the article that he helped/led the team that invented the pop tart please? Whispyhistory (talk) 17:24, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Will do that. Created another hook that Bill Post himself would approve of. I didn't write the section on the invention of the Pop-Tart, but I'll be sure to modify this. I'm sort of getting sucked into this DYK because I need to finish working on Gerald McGinnis so I can nominate it for DYK tomorrow. ❤History Theorist❤ 17:34, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No worries.. let me me know how I can help.. and take your time. fyi.. I have never had a pop tart. Whispyhistory (talk) 17:37, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Lol, me neither

. I just read a bit too much of the AP obituaries to let this one pass by. ❤History Theorist❤ 18:02, 24 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Whispyhistory: Do you have any other concerns with the article that need to be addressed? (Just asking out of curiosity) ❤History Theorist❤ 23:35, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

... All looks accurate and good. All hooks are in the article and followed by citations to references containing hook facts. It would be good to have a photo of his lovely smile. Thank you to a great team effort. Whispyhistory (talk) 06:17, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I would love a picture of him too. However, I couldn't find any free images. Might insert a non-free image, but that means it won't be used for DYK though. Thanks for reviewing this DYK, this is probably one of my favorite articles to work on so far. ❤History Theorist❤ 15:12, 26 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unfrosted

Shouldn't we add a mention of the fact that he's a character (under the name Bob Cabana) in Jerry Seinfeld's film Unfrosted? 98.123.38.211 (talk) 03:50, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Before adding any material, do you have a source for this addition? Secondly, are you sure you're referring to the right William Post? I would be willing to add it, but the sources I consulted to help create the article have thus far remained silent on the claim. ❤History Theorist❤ 18:00, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]