Template:Did you know nominations/Richard Hanania
- 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: rejected by reviewer, closed by Narutolovehinata5 (talk) 14:38, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
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Richard Hanania
- ... that Richard Hanania argued for "more policing, incarceration, and surveillance of black people" in an essay that Elon Musk thought was interesting? Source: [1]““I don’t have much hope that we’ll solve crime in any meaningful way,” Hanania tweeted while promoting the article. “It would require a revolution in our culture or form of government. We need more policing, incarceration, and surveillance of black people. Blacks won’t appreciate it, whites don’t have the stomach for it.” A short time later, the world’s richest man, and the owner of Twitter (since rebranded as “X”), replied to Hanania’s tweet. “Interesting,” Elon Musk wrote.”
Created by LonelyBoy2012 (talk). Self-nominated at 02:48, 8 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Richard Hanania; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
- Comment: Just noting the QPQ has not been completed. A drive-by comment has been left without approval or an indication that article has been reviewed against the DYK criteria.--NØ 08:23, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
Article is new enough and long enough. My concerns with this nomination are several. First, the article appears largely based on a quite negative profile of Hanania in the Huffington Post. It reads like an article that unduly focuses on negative aspects of a living person, which should largely be avoided. Second, I have concerns with the hook. It also duly focuses on a negative aspect of living persons (Hanania and Musk). Additionally, the Huffington Post article quotes the original Hanania essay inaccurately and out of context. The hook is also misleading. Musk responded to Hanania's tweet. There's no indication that he read the essay, and I would hate to give off that impression. No QPQ required for this editor. Longhornsg (talk) 03:22, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
Rejecting. As Longhorns notes, there are serious BLP issues here, both in general and as specifically relevant to DYK. It's a clear-cut case of a hook focusing on a negative aspect of a living person. The article is orange-level cleanup-tagged for its heavy reliance on a single source; said source is, as noted, a negative profile in a source not necessarily appropriate to make up most of a BLP. This cleanup tag alone would rule out DYK eligibility, and I'd say there are other relevant ones around neutrality and due weight. I'm not even convinced the case for an article is made here -- the coverage of the subject is overwhelmingly focused on something other than what the deprod claimed is his case for notability (NAUTHOR), and none of the NAUTHOR-relevant books...have articles, which would be a better focus if someone wanted to write about this guy for some reason. (Absolutely not the kind of guy I'd want to write about, but people have all sorts of hobbies.) These are serious issues, several of which Longhorns mentioned in the original review two weeks ago, and the nominator has been inactive for nearly a month and made no response. Vaticidalprophet 14:24, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
