Template talk:Did you know/Barry Locke

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:07, 31 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Barry Locke

... that while serving in the Nixon administration, Barry Locke also worked as a boxing manager?

Created by Hirolovesswords (talk). Self nom at 05:59, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - Great article. You have a controversial sentence in the lede of your article, about the "first" Mass. cabinet member convicted of a felony, which must have a ref. That sentence in the lede needs to be expanded in the body of the article, but it is not mentioned anywhere else.Jarhed (talk) 18:06, 12 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Seems to have been referenced. Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:40, 20 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Length and creation date check out. Referencing in article checks out (I changed one date to match a source and specified a year in 2 places), and no copyvio or excessive close wording detected ("five counts of conspiracy to commit bribery and larceny" and suchlike I judge to be acceptable reuse for legal precision); however, I had to assume good faith on those facts taken from the paywalled Boston Globe articles that do not appear in the summaries. Hook is adequately referenced, but the article did not actually mention that it was under Nixon, so I have added that. Article is neutral in tone and in balance of parts. The controversial statement mentioned above is no longer in the lede and is adequately referenced, but I added a background detail from a source. Usage is fine; I fixed the one typo I saw. In my judgment, good to go. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:30, 30 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]