Template:Did you know nominations/Killing of Nathan Heidelberg

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 15:49, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

Killing of Nathan Heidelberg

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• ... that a Texas man who shot and killed a police officer on his front porch was acquitted of murder? Source: "On Wednesday, both sides made their closing arguments, and 25 of Heidelberg’s brethren, all in uniform, joined the SRO crowd. But it took the jury only ninety minutes to come to a decision: not guilty." Texas Monthly; December 10, 2021
  • ALT1: ... that a malfunctioning burglar alarm may have led to the fatal shooting of a police officer in Midland, Texas? Source: "Every day the courtroom was packed with visitors and supporters of both families, who heard how the killing had been set in motion by a mechanical error. The initial alarm turned out to have been a false one—an error response interpreted by the security monitoring company as a burglary in progress, which was then reported to the police. But the company failed to alert Wilson that the police were on their way. A minute and a half after police were dispatched, another test was run on the system, and this time there was no error notice. But no one contacted the police to let them know the security system was having issues and there might not in fact be a burglary in progress.", Texas Monthly
  • ALT2: ... that in 2019 Nathan Heidelberg became the first Midland, Texas, police officer to die on the job in over 50 years? Source: "Heidelberg became the first Midland police officer to die in the line of duty since 1966", Texas Monthly
  • ALT3: ... that Midland, Texas, police officer Nathan Heidelberg and the man acquitted of his murder attended the same church? Source: "Wilson grew up in Snyder, 88 miles south, where his father was an oilman. He dreamed of starting his own oil company, and at age twenty, in 2003, he did: Unitex Oil & Gas. He married Amy, his high school sweetheart, and the couple had three daughters. The couple taught Sunday school at First Baptist Church, where he was a deacon ... Heidelberg, 27 at his death, had been with the department for five years. A hometown boy, he graduated from Midland College in 2011. He was a tall, hard-working cop who also attended First Baptist". Texas Monthly
  • ALT4: ... that both the family of slain Texas police officer Nathan Heidelberg and the man acquitted of murder in his death are suing the latter's burglar alarm company over the incident? Source: "Both Heidelberg’s family and Wilson have sued the monitoring company and the firm that installed the security system.", Texas Monthly
  • ALT5: ... that a Texas man acquitted of murdering a cop on his front porch later filed a court action to have the district attorney removed from office, alleging misconduct in his trial? Source: "The attorneys representing Midland’s David Wilson announced Thursday that a petition has been filed to remove District Attorney Laura Nodolf from office. Wilson was tried in December for the shooting of a Midland police officer and found not guilty by a Midland jury ... In a press release, Wilson’s legal team of Allison Clayton and Frank Sellers state they can prove Nodolf violated 'fundamental constitutional rights, basic legal principles and multiple ethical mandates every prosecutor knows,' including searching David Wilson’s home without a warrant, lying to a grand jury to secure David Wilson’s indictment and abusing the grand jury process in her quest to 'win.'", Midland Reporter-Telegram; June 9, 2022
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Farzi

Moved to mainspace by Daniel Case (talk). Self-nominated at 06:21, 2 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Killing of Nathan Heidelberg; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• I shall review this. Due to its length and sensitive nature, I may be taking a couple of days over this review, so if my review looks unfinished, please be patient. Thank you. (Update: initial review now complete). Storye book (talk) 20:38, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Thank you for this article, which, sadly, had to be written.

• The article is fully sourced, and I accept that the blockquote and the bullet points have a citation above or below, which covers them.
• Earwig finds a lot of similarities, but they are either common short phrases, or quotations which are clearly marked in the article. So no problem there.
• ALT0: This hook works well, but in many countries, "cop" is disrespectful, and this incident has mourning families still living. I would accept ALT0 if "cop" could be changed to "police officer". Normally I would request that only a short representative part of the hook should be linked to the article name, but in this case, which is a shocking subject, I think that the long link needs to stand out like that. Hook cited in article.
• ALT1: This hook works fine, and it's cited in the article.
• ALT2: Misleading. Although this hook is true, and it is cited, it distracts from the main point and subject matter of the article, If you just read the hook and don't click on it, it looks as if the officer could have had a heart attack or something. So no.
• ALT3: Misleading. The hook is ambiguous - does it mean the same local church building and community - or just the same religious denomination so that maybe the two men had never previously met? This hook might work if it said that the men had actually met and knew each other, being part of the same church community, but the article doesn't not say that. So no.
• ALT4: Too complex, long and distracting with detail. 181 characters. If there were no other hook, this one would have to be acceptable because it's true, but there are more hooky hooks here.
• ALT5: True, but it distracts from the distress caused to all parties in this incident, while at the same time using the disrespectful (in some countries) word, "cop". When we read the article, we have compassion for all parties, But this hook seems to belie that compassion (even though that is not its intentiion).. So no.

Summary

I have struck out ALTs 2, 3 and 5 (but please reinstate them if you disagree). That leaves ALTs 0, 1 and 4. I believe that ALT1 is the best because it is direct, easy to take in, and it represents the main point of the article accurately. If "cop" could be replaced with "police officer", then I believe that this nomination could be good to go with ALTs 0, 1 and 4, with strong preference for ALT0. Storye book (talk) 22:04, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

 Done My preference was ALT0 always, anyway. Daniel Case (talk) 02:51, 9 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you, Daniel Case.

with ALTs 0, 1 and 4, with strong preference for ALT0. Storye book (talk) 09:23, 9 March 2023 (UTC)