Template:Did you know nominations/Henry Garber Hanks

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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:46, 10 October 2018 (UTC)

Henry Garber Hanks[edit]

  • ... that Henry G. Hanks (pictured) sailed to India as a teen and painted houses in Cleveland before becoming the namesake for hanksite?
    • ALT1:... that Henry G. Hanks (pictured) sailed to India as a teen and painted houses in Cleveland before becoming California's first state mineralogist?
    • ALT2:... that Henry G. Hanks (pictured) left Cleveland to join the California Gold Rush, only to end up selling paint and studying mineralogy?
    • ALT3:... that Henry G. Hanks (pictured) was a sailor, sign maker, and paint salesman before becoming the US's mineral superintendent for the 1878 Universal Exhibition?

Created by LlywelynII (talk). Self-nominated at 18:14, 21 August 2018 (UTC).

  • @LlywelynII: New enough and long enough. QPQ done. As to the hook options, I've linked a few relevant topics in the hook:

    Don't do that. It needlessly removes clicks from the pages being promoted by the DYK. If people want to know more about hanksite (let alone Cleveland), they can click through to the new article and work from there. — LlywelynII 13:00, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

    I like ALT0 and ALT2 the most of the options available. Most of the hook elements have citations, but some don't. Do any of the sources cover the sailing to India or painting houses in Cleveland? There's no inline citation for either event in the article.

    Yes, there are. — LlywelynII 13:00, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

    We're there if you can get that added. Raymie (tc) 05:54, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
  • Great. If you weren't aware, a source at the end of a paragraph etc. includes everything before it. Per policy, we're supposed to prefer that style rather than put citations after every single sentence, although you're welcome to duplicate the citations further if you think it necessary for people coming into the article. — LlywelynII 13:00, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
  • @Raymie: The nominator hasn't edited since September. I understand their comments above, but per WP:DYK hook facts need to be directly cited as well and that "a citation at the end of the paragraph" is not enough (yes personally I don't understand why either, but rules are rules). Do you have any more objections to the article? I would have marked this for closure, but the issue appears to be easily solvable at this point. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 10:03, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
  • @Narutolovehinata5: Nope, I added additional citations to the biographical source so that the hook sentences are cited. Raymie (tc) 21:39, 9 October 2018 (UTC)