Talk:1996 North Carolina Secretary of State election

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A fact from 1996 North Carolina Secretary of State election appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 March 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a car accident may have wrecked Richard Petty's chances of being elected North Carolina's secretary of state?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1996 North Carolina Secretary of State election.

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The result was: promoted by Tarlby talk 16:46, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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~~... that "The King" Richard Petty's campaign in the 1996 North Carolina Secretary of State election veered off course due to a hit-and-run?~~

Source: https://greensboro.com/richard-petty-faces-hit-and-run-charge/article_9b367971-70ea-5a5a-97a6-af97a4975884.html

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Created by CaramelizedMargaritaLime (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

CaramelizedMargaritaLime (talk) 07:41, 27 January 2025 (UTC).[reply]

First off, nice job creating that article! There are two primary concerns I have right now: 1.) "legendary" is PUFFERY, 2.) the traffic incident section's second paragraph is fluff. Both issues can be resolved with a few well-executed excisions. ~ Pbritti (talk) 21:38, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

- @Pbritti: Thank you for taking a look at my article and providing some constructive criticism! I hope you like the changes that I made as much as I do. CaramelizedMargaritaLime (talk) 22:16, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Dull hook. Someone usually loses an election; that doesn't become more interesting because of what they did before running. I think something related to his car accident would be more interesting, maybe with a pun, i.e. " ... that a car accident may have wrecked Richard Petty's chances of becoming North Carolina's Secretary of State?" Also, see the passages I tagged inline. Daniel Case (talk) 23:44, 27 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
- @Daniel Case: I appreciate your advice. I tried to spice up the entry with a racing pun tied to the scandal.CaramelizedMargaritaLime (talk) 00:33, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Yours is actually better. Daniel Case (talk) 05:00, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the assist, Daniel Case. That hook is actually extremely funny. Great work! ~ Pbritti (talk) 14:48, 28 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I tried to promote this DYK but realized that I had misunderstood which hook Pbritti was referring to as "extremely funny". So I am striking ALT0 and reformatting ALT1 here now for a future promoter.

ALT1: ... that a car accident may have wrecked Richard Petty's chances of being elected North Carolina's Secretary of State?"

@CaramelizedMargaritaLime: A DYK admin has raised concerns about the lack of prose in the "Results" section of the article here:Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Prep_6 Could you take a look and try to address? Cielquiparle (talk) 21:44, 22 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@CaramelizedMargaritaLime: Please address the above.--Laun chba ller 13:07, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cielquiparle: Apologies for not addressing sooner! I could not find any analysis of the results to cite so I did the best with what I had. CaramelizedMargaritaLime (talk) 11:46, 04 March 2025 (UTC).[reply]

the section has prose now. Tenpop421 (talk) 01:10, 18 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]