Template:Did you know nominations/Bill Mullahey
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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 05:27, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
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Bill Mullahey
- ... that Bill Mullahey, Pan Am's head of Pacific operations until 1970, started with the airline as a freediving demolitions expert, blasting coral on Wake Island? Source: "The air base's other occupants were the diving dynamiter, Bill Mullahey, and seven other men detailed to handle some unfinished construction."
- ALT1:... that Pan Am executive Bill Mullahey was nicknamed "Mr. Pacific" for his work promoting tourism to Hawaiʻi and other island destinations? Source: "As Bill worked to expand travel for Pan Am, he earned the nickname 'Mr. Pacific.'"
- Reviewed: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill
Created by Tcr25 (talk). Self-nominated at 18:15, 19 September 2021 (UTC).
The article is long enough and new enough with no copyright violations. A QPQ has been completed. Both hooks are directly cited. The only issue is that Lulu.com is an unreliable self-publisher. SL93 (talk) 03:38, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you, SL93. Yeah, I would have preferred a different source, but, applying WP:USINGSPS, I believe Legendary Surfers passes the acceptability test. Gault-Williams is an established writer for surfing magazines and has co-authored a RS-published biography of early surfer Tom Blake, written a documentary on surf photographer Doc Ball, and has been cited in academic literature. The point the citation is being used for is actually in a quote from a long out-of-print book that I can't locate to confirm the details, but spotchecking other citations in the book indicate that it's faithful to the original sources. Three options:
- Drop the sentence.
- Bypass Legendary Surfers and cite the original book quoted (Blake, Tom (1983) [1935]. Hawaiian Surfriders, 1935. Redondo Beach, California: Mountain & Sea Publishing. p. 69.)
- Accept the self-published source as from an expert in the field
- Fourth option, which I just implemented on the page, leave the self-published source, but note that it's quoting the RS-published source and include that in the reference, too.
- What do you think? —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 12:49, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
- Thank you, SL93. Yeah, I would have preferred a different source, but, applying WP:USINGSPS, I believe Legendary Surfers passes the acceptability test. Gault-Williams is an established writer for surfing magazines and has co-authored a RS-published biography of early surfer Tom Blake, written a documentary on surf photographer Doc Ball, and has been cited in academic literature. The point the citation is being used for is actually in a quote from a long out-of-print book that I can't locate to confirm the details, but spotchecking other citations in the book indicate that it's faithful to the original sources. Three options:
