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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 Cielquiparle (talk) 15:09, 4 February 2023 (UTC)

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Mark Wetjen

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  • ... that Mark Wetjen was the top advisor for Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, during an aggressive lobbying campaign of the United States Congress? Source: “ Meanwhile, he was using his newfound political clout to sell Washington on a regulatory regime that promised to work to his advantage. The contrasts were glaring and never easily reconciled: As crypto’s self-appointed ambassador to Washington, Bankman-Fried was pressing for federal regulation even as he dodged U.S. oversight from his corporate headquarters in the Bahamas.
    The executive acknowledged that FTX’s aggressive lobbying made him an outlier in crypto. “Outside of us, there weren’t many people engaging,” Bankman-Fried said in an interview last month with The Washington Post. “I think that means we have to do a better job as an industry more generally engaging.”
    In April, he turned up in the office of Caroline Pham, a Republican member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, less than a week after she assumed the post, along with Mark Wetjen, the former acting chair of the agency and now Bankman-Fried’s top Washington adviser.” Washington Post

Created by Thriley (talk). Self-nominated at 01:56, 20 November 2022 (UTC).

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: No - n
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: Yes

QPQ: No - Not done
Overall: A QPQ is needed. The hook appears to be incorrect because the source says, "top Washington adviser". Wetjen didn't resign the CFTC - he resigned from the CFTC. The article has a notability tag. The references shouldn't be bare URLs. SL93 (talk) 21:24, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

  • @Thriley: As you were not able to provide a QPQ within seven days of the nomination plus a reminder, the nomination is now marked for closure. The nomination may resume once a QPQ has been provided. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 00:40, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
  • QPQ has been added. I will fix up this shortly. Thriley (talk) 01:45, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
  • I think it might be a bit better to have something mentioned about the FTX CEO’s desire for cryptocurrency to be regulated by the CFTC and Wetjen’s role in the lobbying. There have been more news stories since I created the article. I’d like to have a look at them before this is approved. Thriley (talk) 05:03, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

We need a new reviewer now. Bremps! 16:48, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

I'll re-review this now; seems like an interesting hook! -MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 21:29, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

At the time of nomination, it was created a week before; prose size is good. Article is sourced and neutral, free of copyvios/plagiarism. Hook is sourced in the article, but it was a bare link; I went ahead and fixed it, so it's good now. It's pretty darn interesting, in my opinion; QPQ done. This is all good now, and I think the above-mentioned ALT1 is best. Thanks everyone! MyCatIsAChonk (talk) 21:39, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

@Thriley: Nearly there with ALT1! Problem is that the article still displays several errors in the References section. Could you please take a look and address, so we can finally send this article to the main page? Cielquiparle (talk) 12:12, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
Cielquiparle, I've just updated the references, and think I got all the errors. Let me know if I missed something. Thanks! BlueMoonset (talk) 14:43, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
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