Template:Did you know nominations/Bill Barwick
- 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: rejected by Allen3 talk 19:09, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Insufficient progress toward resolving outstanding issues
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Bill Barwick
[edit]- ... that singer-songwriter Bill Barwick provided the voice for a life-sized animatronic Buffalo head in the Denver International Airport?
Created by Lou Sander (talk). Nominated by Noah Salzman (talk) at 06:58, 25 January 2015 (UTC).
New enough, long enough. Hook ref verified and cited inline. However, the sourcing for the article is on the weak side – a university newsletter, a local New Mexican paper, his website, and the WhoIsLog.info site (the latter should probably be deleted as a non-reliable source). The assertion that he is "one of America's top Western and cowboy music entertainers" is only supported by the local paper. Per WP:BIO, stronger sourcing from reliable sources is required to substantiate this claim, so I took it out. His many awards do seem to confer notability, but they are all sourced to his website. In general, broader and more reliable sourcing is needed. In terms of the writing, the Personal life section is written in a folksy rather than encyclopedic tone. Template:Infobox musical artist should be added to the page. No QPQ necessary for first-time nominator. Yoninah (talk) 20:22, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
- I've made a start on the infobox, only filling in info I knew was correct. If anyone wants to fill that in further (it's a little empty now) please go ahead. StewdioMACK Talk page 06:59, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
Yoninah, if I'm reading your review correctly, the sourcing issues seem to be enough to keep this from being approved as a DYK. It's been a month since your review, and the only edit made was adding the infobox. Is this close to being passed, or with enough issues that it will almost certainly fail? BlueMoonset (talk) 23:45, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
- @BlueMoonset: it seems the page creator and nominator have abandoned the article and this DYK nomination. The sourcing remains weak, and I added a notability tag to the page. User:TeriEmbrey has placed a note on the talk page of the article, offering better sourcing ideas, but nothing has been done about that to date. Yoninah (talk) 20:51, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Given the weak sourcing, the fact that the nominator hasn't edited in over a month, and the creator, while he believes the article's subject is notable doesn't evince any interest in the DYK nomination, I'm marking this for closure as an unsuccessful DYK submission. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:13, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
