Template:Did you know nominations/William Post
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The result was: promoted by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:27, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
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William Post
[edit]- ... that William Post, who won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery, was successfully sued by his ex-girlfriend for a third of his winnings?
Created by 069952497a (talk). Self nominated at 13:49, 20 May 2013 (UTC).
Date, size are fine. I have some notability concerns, however, and I'd like a second opinion from another reviewer whether we shouldn't AfD this first. Also, the hook could be improved, something about him being included in the list(s) of most unlucky lottery winners would make a better one than about being sued. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:47, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
- ALT1:... that William Post, who won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery, has been one of the unluckiest lottery winners, eventually ending up $1 million in debt?
- I don't think there are any notability problems; Post has been covered by multiple independent, reliable secondary sources, including Time, Forbes, the Washington Post, and the book Vitally Useless Information. Admittedly in many of them he is not the main subject; however, he receives much more than just a passing mention in the references provided in the article. 069952497aComments and complaintsStuff I've done 20:38, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
- Ok, we have an article with a notability template and as such, it can't go onto the front page. What do we do? Piotrus, do you want to put it up at AfD so that we know, once and for all? I'm not sure that I myself could or should start an AfD process, given that I said above that "my gut feeling is that it'll pass (just)." Schwede66 23:50, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
Second opinion by 069952497a convinces me to remove the notability tag. As such, this is GTG. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 12:13, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
- Thank you! 069952497aComments and complaintsStuff I've done 20:24, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
- Ok, we have an article with a notability template and as such, it can't go onto the front page. What do we do? Piotrus, do you want to put it up at AfD so that we know, once and for all? I'm not sure that I myself could or should start an AfD process, given that I said above that "my gut feeling is that it'll pass (just)." Schwede66 23:50, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
- I don't think there are any notability problems; Post has been covered by multiple independent, reliable secondary sources, including Time, Forbes, the Washington Post, and the book Vitally Useless Information. Admittedly in many of them he is not the main subject; however, he receives much more than just a passing mention in the references provided in the article. 069952497aComments and complaintsStuff I've done 20:38, 21 May 2013 (UTC)
