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William A. Caldwell

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk)

... that Pulitzer winner William A. Caldwell wrote approximately 12,000 editorial columns, each exactly 85 lines long, six days a week for 41 years?

Reviewed: Central Saint Giles

Created by Gamaliel (talk). Self nom at 20:11, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Article length is ok at about 1800 characters. The date of creation checks out. The article (and the supporting source) indicates that he wrote "about" 12,000 "Simeon Stylites," so the hook should say that rather than "over." I went ahead and changed "over" to "approximately." The hook and the article as a whole are supported by reliable sources. The citation format was not not perfect (a bare url in one case), but I've fixed that. The hook is well composed and interesting. The hook draws much of its factual information from two New York Times articles, but the editor has put thing into his/her own words sufficiently such that I don't believe there's a copy vio or unnecessarily close paraphrasing. Some of the sources (in particular the articles from The Record) are off-line and could not be checked for copyvio/paraphrasing. Cbl62 (talk) 16:18, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]