Template:Did you know nominations/Priddy Meeks
- 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 MPJ-DK 23:21, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
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Priddy Meeks
[edit]- ... that the pioneer doctor Priddy Meeks once told sick patients via messenger to "jump all over the city creek, crawl back into your tent and cover up warm"?
- ALT1:... that pioneer doctor Priddy Meeks and his teenaged third wife both had a spiritual revelation that they should marry?
- ALT2:... that pioneer doctor Priddy Meeks was in Carthage Jail when Joseph Smith was martyred?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Where in North Dakota Is Carmen Sandiego?
- Comment: The article in my QPQ failed the review--do I need to review a different DYK nomination? I can't find the link to the review.
5x expanded by Amgisseman(BYU) (talk) and Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk). Nominated by Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) at 20:18, 9 August 2016 (UTC).
- Hi, I formatted ALT0 and added a link to your QPQ. (If you know the name of the article, just add "Template:Did you know nominations/" in front of it and put links around it.) To answer your question: You did a complete review; even though it failed, it still counts as a QPQ. Best, Yoninah (talk) 00:38, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
| General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy compliance:
- Adequate sourcing:
- Neutral:
- Meeks practised Thomsonian medicine which was somewhat controversial and the article should make this clearer. The lead describes him as both a "hero" and "villain" but does not explain this extreme language. - Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
- Other problems: - The material is based on Meeks' journal which is autobiographical and so, as a primary source, is potentially unreliable. The article should make it clearer when it's using Meeks' own account.
Hook eligibility:
- Cited:
- Interesting:
- Other problems: - I prefer the first hook and haven't checked the others.<
Image eligibility:
- Freely licensed: - na
- Used in article: - The article has a picture and this should be added to the hook IMO.
- Clear at 100px:
| QPQ: Done. |
Overall: 
The subject is quite interesting and so seems worthy of further effort. I'll see if I can help. Andrew D. (talk) 12:01, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
@Amgisseman(BYU): thank you for fixing the lead; I also added to it, and removed the tag. I have one question about the second paragraph under Personal Life. Where does it say that Meeks was 62 when he looked for a second wife? Since this took place during his first marriage, and his first wife died in 1923, when he was about 28, this age can't be right. Yoninah (talk) 19:47, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
- Yoninah I corrected the wording in the Personal life paragraph. Sarah was his second wife, and she was the wife that encouraged him to find a plural wife. His age was correct, I just made an error in calling her his first wife. Thanks for pointing that out.
- Andrew D. The lead has now been changed.I tried to supplement some of the autobiographical sources with a book that has a section on Priddy Meeks; however, not all of the information is found there. The rest of the information is only found in his journals. In my opinion I feel like sources are acceptable to use under WP:SELFPUB. Amgisseman(BYU) (talk) 20:28, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
