Template:Did you know nominations/Scott Lee Kimball

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 Jack Frost (talk) 06:23, 15 August 2021 (UTC)

Scott Lee Kimball

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... that Scott Lee Kimball killed three of his four known victims while he was working as an FBI informant? Source: "Kimball, an FBI informant-turned-serial-killer, is serving a 70-year sentence for four murders committed after he was released from federal prison in December 2002 to act as an FBI informant.", Denver Post; October 19, 2017. In December 2003 "Kimball also got three years of federal probation, which ended his official work with the FBI, The Atavist, May 2021. "Then, some time in mid-2004, Kimball’s uncle, Terry Kimball, 60, vanished.", Denver Post story above.
- ALT1:... that an investigation into a check-forging scheme revealed that Scott Lee Kimball was also a serial killer? Source: See Chapter 5 of the Atavist story; it's really too long to quote here.
- ALT2:... that serial killer Scott Lee Kimball and his current wife have never met in person, as they are both incarcerated? Source: Atavist story: "While in prison, Kimball married Elizabeth Marie Francis, a woman in her twenties who is in a Kansas prison for child abuse. They have never met in person."
- ALT3:... that an FBI agent was suspended for two weeks after Scott Lee Kimball committed three of his four known serial murders while working as an informant for the bureau? Source: Atavist story: "Schlaff was suspended for three weeks without pay. He appealed, and the suspension was reduced to two weeks."

Reviewed: Katyayani Shankar Bajpai
Comment: I am still expanding this and there may be more hooks.

5x expanded by Daniel Case (talk). Self-nominated at 19:08, 5 August 2021 (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: Article was recently expanded 5x, is long enough and sourced. Both hooks are cited and interesting. A qpq has been provided. ~~The only issue is Earwig is picking up a lot of similarities with one of the articles (65%). I'm not sure if this constitutes copyvio so I'm asking for a second opinion.~~ BuySomeApples (talk) 05:04, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Not the second opinion, since I'm the nominator, but it seems to me that a lot of the overlap with the Atavist article is either the same quotations (fully attributed in the article) or common phrases or limited ways of saying the same thing. Daniel Case (talk) 05:56, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

@BuySomeApples and Daniel Case: In case you missed it, at WT:DYK#Scott Lee Kimball, there's a reply from Desertarun which reads: "It is a copyvio. There are multiple instances of close paraphrasing." Pamzeis (talk) 04:04, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

@BuySomeApples: The paraphrasing has been fixed so this review should continue. Desertarun (talk) 16:27, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

Thanks to @Daniel Case:, @Desertarun: and @Pamzeis: for helping this review along! Now that the paraphrasing issue has been fixed, I can't see any other problems with the nomination.

Don't know if this has already been run or not or which blurb was finally selected, but the original has a typo. " ... that Scott Lee Kimball killed three of his four known victims while was working as an FBI informant?" should be changed to "while he was working" or "while working". --Khajidha (talk) 17:00, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Fixed Daniel Case (talk) 18:41, 13 August 2021 (UTC)