Template:Did you know nominations/Timothy Meaher
- 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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 09:16, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
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Timothy Meaher
- ... that Timothy Meaher owned the slave-ship Clotilda that was responsible for the last illegal transport of slaves from Africa to the United States of America in 1860? Source: from article "owned the infamous slave-ship Clotilde" that was "responsible for the last illegal transport of slaves from Africa to the United States of America in 1860""
- ALT1:... that Timothy Meaher burned the slave-ship Clotilda to hide the fact that he was contravening the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves for a bet? Source: from article "The illegal capturing and transporting of slaves was made as a bet to see if Meaher could avoid the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves."
Created by Master Of Ninja (talk). Self-nominated at 12:40, 4 August 2019 (UTC).
Article is in date and long enough (just). I've removed 'infamous' from the article and hook, it's a bit of a value judgement and purple prosey. No QPQ needed. I find the article quite stubby, there's very little about Meaher. The find a grave source has a wealth of detail on his life, but can't be used here as it is not considered a WP:RS (and would need replacing in the article). There's perhaps more you might include from this obituary and perhaps this source. The book on the event must also have some detail on the man. At the moment the article seems to raise a lot of questions that would be interesting - what were the terms of the bet for example? Who was it with? Who helped in the enterprise? How many slaves? Where from? Why was Meaher rich and wealthy? What did he do in later life? At the moment the only details that seem to appear in this article and not in say Clotilda (slave ship) are Meaher's early life and death details, both of which are sourced to findagrave. Wikipedia:Did you know/Supplementary guidelines#Other supplementary rules for the article D7 says "Articles that fail to deal adequately with the topic are ... likely to be rejected." I think this could be an example at the moment, unless the article can be further expanded? Spokoyni (talk) 19:42, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
- Coming here from WT:DYK, I suppose that while Find A Grave usually isn't considered a good source, I think it might be allowed perhaps just for citing the burial location, though a second (reliable) source should probably be included as well just to make sure. I have to agree that right now, while the article seems okay, it only seems to barely discuss his birth and death and instead mainly focuses on the slave ship itself. Nothing regarding the circumstances of why he started in the first place, how it ended, other important matters, etc. This could be allowed if let's say an attempt was made to search for such information without success, but until then, D7 may apply. @Master Of Ninja: Will you be able to expand the article in regards to more information about Meaher's personal life? Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 20:26, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
- There has been no response from the nominator, who has been inactive since the day of the nomination. @Master Of Ninja: Considering how many issues there currently are in the article, a prompt response would be needed for this to be successful. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 11:41, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
- Sorry. Only back to see wikipedia today. Withdraw as minimal time to make improvements in a timely manner. - Master Of Ninja (talk) 20:36, 16 August 2019 (UTC)
