Template:Did you know nominations/RateMyCop.com

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 10:38, 10 July 2022 (UTC)

RateMyCop.com

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• ... that a Florida resident was arrested after posting on RateMyCop.com, and prosecuted under a 1972 statute that made it illegal to publish the personal information of police officers? Source: Wired (2010)
  • ALT1: ... that a bill was proposed in the Utah State Senate to hide police misconduct reports from the public after RateMyCop.com requested reports on every police officer in the state? Source: KUTV
  • ALT2: ... that GoDaddy stopped hosting RateMyCop.com due to "suspicious activity", before later stating that the website reached a bandwidth limit? Source: Wired (2008)
  • Reviewed: None needed (less than 5 nominations)

Improved to Good Article status by ArcticSeeress (talk). Self-nominated at 06:45, 18 June 2022 (UTC).

• An interesting article, ArcticSeeress and interesting hooks to choose from! Formalities: QPQ not required, Earwig only picks up direct quotes, article appears to be reliably cited throughout, within policy, hooks directly cited in the article. ALT0 piqued my interest the most - and it's correct, because he was prosecuted, just never convicted, per source and article. As for the other two, I can confirm from the sources. I think ALT0 and ALT1 are more interesting than the ALT2 and prefer them, but I leave it to the promoter. Good to go, and thanks for working this to GA! Urve (talk) 08:24, 22 June 2022 (UTC) PS: I'm (genuinely) unsure on the image licensing on File:RateMyCop.com logo.gif because it contains a fingerprint and may meet the threshold of originality. It's been looked at by others, so I assume OK, but leaving this note.

Revisiting this, I think a shorter hook might be better, so here's a new one:

• ALT0a: ... that a Florida resident was arrested after posting on RateMyCop.com?

ArcticSeeress (talk) 09:22, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Sure, that's OK too. I like the original ALT0 more, but tastes vary. Urve (talk) 16:15, 5 July 2022 (UTC)