Template:Did you know nominations/Garnett Wikoff

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The result was: promoted by BorgQueen (talk) 14:07, 18 April 2023 (UTC)

Garnett Wikoff

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... that delivering newspapers was how Garnett Wikoff became an Olympic runner? Source: Norwalk Evening Herald ("Garnett Wikoff is working his way through college by selling newspapers. He has a route and it is a large one, covering territory of nine or ten miles. This has to be traversed each morning before breakfast and school. It is to this work that Wikoff owes his successes and fame as a long-distance runner and from this work he also earns enough to pay for his education. For two years he has had the route and has carried papers in rain or shine, in heat or cold. Each morning, the young man is up at an hour when most of his school mates are asleep. Daily he began to quicken his pace. First he adopted a brisk walk, then a dog trot, and now he runs at full speed, stopping only to deliver his papers.")
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Roman Josi

5x expanded by BeanieFan11 (talk). Self-nominated at 03:12, 8 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Garnett Wikoff; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

Article was expanded at least 5x, is long enough and is neutral. It was nominated for DYK on due time. It cites sources inline. "Earwig's Copyvio Detector" reports text similarity of 40.5% in one source commenting "violation possible". However, the text portions are quotes only, therfore, no copyvio is there. The hook is well-formatted, interesting, and is cited inline. Its length is within limit. QPQ is missing. I will approve after the QPQ was provided. CeeGee 08:43, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
@CeeGee: Reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Roman Josi as a QPQ. BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:16, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
- Everything is fine now. Good to go. CeeGee 08:23, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
  @BeanieFan11 and CeeGee: I really like this article. The one problem that jumps out is the 3 references citing Ancestry.com, which raises flags from a WP:RS point of view. Personally, I think it's ok to just delete that part of the article – it's kind of weak to be citing someone's "occupation" as listed in the U.S. Census and including that as encyclopedic information. But if you really want to keep it, I would advise fixing the links so that they link directly to the relevant census records, and then only listing Ancestry.com in the "via" field – Ancestry.com is not the actual source at all; they are just re-publishing the information. (The distinction is important because the original content on Ancestry.com itself is full of speculative garbage.) Cielquiparle (talk) 15:25, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
  @BeanieFan11 and CeeGee: issues have gone unaddressed; can they be fixed within a week? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 21:15, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
  Oops! I forgot about this. I'll see if I can work on it now. BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:22, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
  It seems I don't have the ability to use Ancestry.com anymore. Pinging the person who added the text and references to it: @Mgreason: BeanieFan11 (talk) 21:25, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
  I have found no way to access census records other than a 3rd party, so I removed "the 3 references citing Ancestry.com" and deleted the section regarding later life. Mgrē@sŏn (Talk) 18:31, 15 April 2023 (UTC)

Ancestry.com references have been removed. Cielquiparle (talk) 20:11, 15 April 2023 (UTC)