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The result was: '''promoted''' by [[User:Hawkeye7|Hawkeye7]] ([[User talk:Hawkeye7|talk]]) 19:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)<br />
 
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*<s> ... that '''[[Barton Currie]]''' wrote the comic novel ''Officer 666'' ''(pictured)'', and a book about tractors?</s>
 
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<small>Created by [[User:Philafrenzy|Philafrenzy]] ([[User talk:Philafrenzy|talk]]). Nominated by [[User:Edwardx|Edwardx]] ([[User talk:Edwardx|talk]]) at 23:10, 2 September 2014 (UTC)</small>.
 
<small>Created by [[User:Philafrenzy|Philafrenzy]] ([[User talk:Philafrenzy|talk]]). Nominated by [[User:Edwardx|Edwardx]] ([[User talk:Edwardx|talk]]) at 23:10, 2 September 2014 (UTC)</small>.
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:*  [[File:Symbol question.svg|16px]] New enough, long enough, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. No QPQ needed for non-self-nom. Image is pd. The image is terrific, but the hook is a little flat. Would you like to expand on the Broadway and film adaptations of the novel? Alternately, you may find something else for the hook in material that I added to the Writing Career section. Best, [[User:Yoninah|Yoninah]] ([[User talk:Yoninah|talk]]) 20:42, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
 
:*  [[File:Symbol question.svg|16px]] New enough, long enough, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. No QPQ needed for non-self-nom. Image is pd. The image is terrific, but the hook is a little flat. Would you like to expand on the Broadway and film adaptations of the novel? Alternately, you may find something else for the hook in material that I added to the Writing Career section. Best, [[User:Yoninah|Yoninah]] ([[User talk:Yoninah|talk]]) 20:42, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
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::::Indeed they are which is why we had the original hook. I am not sure why it was struck. [[User:Philafrenzy|Philafrenzy]] ([[User talk:Philafrenzy|talk]]) 21:54, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 
::::Indeed they are which is why we had the original hook. I am not sure why it was struck. [[User:Philafrenzy|Philafrenzy]] ([[User talk:Philafrenzy|talk]]) 21:54, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
 
[[File:Symbol confirmed.svg|16px]] Re-highlighting approval for ALT1. [[User:Yoninah|Yoninah]] ([[User talk:Yoninah|talk]]) 11:57, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
 
[[File:Symbol confirmed.svg|16px]] Re-highlighting approval for ALT1. [[User:Yoninah|Yoninah]] ([[User talk:Yoninah|talk]]) 11:57, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
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Latest revision as of 19:38, 30 October 2014

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 Hawkeye7 (talk) 19:38, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

Barton Currie

Officer 666

  • ... that Barton Currie wrote the comic novel Officer 666 (pictured), and a book about tractors?
  • Reviewed: not a self-nom

Created by Philafrenzy (talk). Nominated by Edwardx (talk) at 23:10, 2 September 2014 (UTC).

  • Symbol question.svg New enough, long enough, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. No QPQ needed for non-self-nom. Image is pd. The image is terrific, but the hook is a little flat. Would you like to expand on the Broadway and film adaptations of the novel? Alternately, you may find something else for the hook in material that I added to the Writing Career section. Best, Yoninah (talk) 20:42, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Thanks for your additions! I will take a look. Philafrenzy (talk) 21:31, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Symbol confirmed.svg Thanks, Drmies. After more than a week waiting for a response from the page creator, I'm ready to go ahead with ALT1, which is verified, cited inline, and excellent. ALT1 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 19:09, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Sure thing, and thanks for your work on that article. I do like the whole wire thing, though--would have looked nicer with a proper wikilink, I suppose. The first hook would have been real funny if he had hired another Zane. Drmies (talk) 19:13, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Symbol confirmed.svg No problem, ALT3 is also verified and cited inline, and I added a link to Telegraph -- is that what you meant? Yoninah (talk) 19:46, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Pulled from prep. Sorry, but there's something very seriously wrong here -- news stories were sent by wire since at least the US Civil War. Anyway, source seems to be saying he sent story by wireLESS (not by WIRE) but I can't really be sure. On top of that, whatever the source says, it's not really one of the highest reliability -- a newspaper recounting a historical event from many decades before. A scholarly source would be much, much better. EEng (talk) 06:33, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
  • I removed the disputed claim (which was not added by me). There's no reason why it shouldn't go ahead now as it stands? Philafrenzy (talk) 08:28, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
  • Symbol confirmed.svg I deferred to Drmies' opinion that ALT3 was the better hook, but IMO it is not hooky for over-50's who know what a wire message is and therefore would not be "hooked" by the hook. I think we should go ahead with ALT1, which at least mentions a famous writer that over-50's may or may not have heard of. ALT1 is verified and cited inline. Yoninah (talk) 09:37, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
  • May I meddle? How about:
ALT4 ... that Ladies Home Journal editor Barton Currie authored The Tractor and Its Influence Upon the Agricultural Implement Industry, a book bibliomania, and the comic novel Officer 666?
EEng (talk) 17:45, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
Unfortunately, not everyone shares your fascination with tractors EE. Alt 1 is nicely constructed and quirky. Philafrenzy (talk) 20:34, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
Now so much a tractor fascination as a tractor attraction. Anyway, I thought the range of his endeavors was amusing, but it was just a suggestion. EEng (talk) 21:06, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
Indeed they are which is why we had the original hook. I am not sure why it was struck. Philafrenzy (talk) 21:54, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Symbol confirmed.svg Re-highlighting approval for ALT1. Yoninah (talk) 11:57, 30 October 2014 (UTC)