Talk:L. Roy Houck

A fact from L. Roy Houck appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 October 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Dances with Wolves was filmed on a 60,000-acre (24,000 ha) ranch owned by L. Roy Houck, a former lieutenant governor of South Dakota?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 Yoninah (talk) 22:02, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Dances with Wolves was filmed on the 60,000-acre (24,000 ha) ranch owned by L. Roy Houck, the former lieutenant governor of South Dakota?
- ALT1:... that L. Roy Houck, the former lieutenant governor of South Dakota owned about 3,500 buffalo on his 60,000-acre (24,000 ha) ranch?

Reviewed: ~~IOU~~ Template:Did you know nominations/Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award

Created/expanded by Muboshgu (talk). Self-nominated at 20:18, 23 September 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Article is close to meeting DYK criteria, and copyvio checks out. Looks like you still owe QPQ, though, @Muboshgu:? One concern I have is that many of the sources from Newspapers.com are behind a paywall, although not the hook's. Is there any possibility these newspapers are archived by a local public library or some similar institution where they are openly available? I also think you need to make a two quick orthographic updates to the article: 1) there's a typo / incomplete sentence in the Early life section - "He graduated from Gettysburg High School.[1] and began selling life insurance." ; and 2) in the same section, Hereford in Hereford cattle should be capitalized. As far as the hook goes, I think the first one is best, but may I suggest a tiny, one-word revision for concision:
ALT0b... that Dances with Wolves was filmed on a 60,000-acre (24,000 ha) ranch owned by L. Roy Houck, former lieutenant governor of South Dakota? Hportfacts5 (talk) 14:10, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Hportfacts5: Just a drive-by comment: while sources aren't required to be openly viewable, it is relatively easy for a newspapers.com subscriber to make openly viewable clippings of these sources. I do suggest using clippings if the nominator is able to do so, though. epicgenius (talk) 14:41, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Hportfacts5:, QPQ provided. I haven't tried clipping newspapers.com articles before, but I can look into how to do that. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:44, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Muboshgu: thanks very much. Maybe the clippings are a later improvement to the article; I'm not familiar with the process myself. My understanding of epicgenius's comment is that there is a way for people to access the information, so it shouldn't keep your article from DYK. This is ready for DYK. Hportfacts5 (talk) 13:53, 26 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have formatted all the Newspapers.com refs the way they ask them to be formatted at WP:Newspapers.com. Muboshgu I'm happy to explain the procedure to you on my talk page. @Hportfacts5: please take another look to see if the hook facts are verified in the now visible sources. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 01:41, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Yoninah, very helpful. The new clips do in fact confirm the facts cited in either hook. Hportfacts5 (talk) 14:18, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Yoninah, thanks for doing that! I'll take a look and ask you if I have any q's. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:07, 29 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]