Template:Did you know nominations/Arthur Harrison Motley
- 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 SL93 talk 04:48, 2 May 2025 (UTC)
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Arthur Harrison Motley
- ... that publisher Arthur Harrison Motley gave up on his dreams of being an actor after he watched Ed Wynn perform?
- Source: Arthur Harrison Motley: The Pitchman (and if a Columbia Spectator article written by an eventual Attorney-General doesn't do it for you in terms of reliable sources, it's also in this NYT article).
- ALT1: ... that instead of drinking liquor with prospective clients, Arthur Harrison Motley sent them notes written in red pencil crayon, 10,000 times a year? Source: SALESMAN OF SOUND IDEAS: Free enterprise gets a hard-driving spokesman in Arthur H. Motley, new U.S. Chamber President, by Louis Cassels; in Nation's Business; Vol. 48, Iss. 5, (May 1960): 42.
- ALT2: ... that when John Hay Whitney bought Arthur Harrison Motley's shares in Parade in 1959, it was on condition that Motley stay publisher until 1964 — and Motley stayed until 1978? Source: the condition that Motley "stay 5 more years" is in this NYT profile, and the fact that Motley was still publisher when he retired in 1978 is in this NYT obit.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bernard Schwartz House
Created by DragonflySixtyseven (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.
DS (talk) 15:05, 7 April 2025 (UTC).
Reviewing... Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 19:53, 7 April 2025 (UTC)- Article is new enough, long enough, and meets minimum quality requirements.
- Note the changes I made to the lead: All information in the lead should appear in the body (including the full name and the dates and locations of birth and death), the birth and death locations don't need to be in the parenthetical at all, and the dates of birth and death should be separated by an N-dash (–) instead of a hyphen (-). Ideally the lead would summarize each main point of the article as well—it's strange to me that being president of the Chamber of Commerce isn't even mentioned there.
- The article would greatly benefit from a reorganization or rewrite to eliminate the WP:PROSELINE-style writing, but that's above DYK's paygrade.
- I'm unable to access the NYT sources, but the other two are cited and verified. Page 42 of Cassels (1960) only says he used crayons, but page 114 confirms that they were pencil crayons.
- QPQ is done.
- The hooks meet their requirements. The first two hooks are especially interesting, I have a preference for ALT1.
Should be good to go for DYK. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 🛸 20:23, 7 April 2025 (UTC)
