Template:Did you know nominations/Carroll E. Stansbury
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The result was: promoted by SL93 talk 21:45, 12 April 2025 (UTC)
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Carroll E. Stansbury
- ... that after Carroll E. Stansbury served as the head of the Baltimore County Police Department for 20 years, his successor only served for a month?
- Source: Baltimore County Police, 1874–1999. Turner Publishing Company. 1999. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-56311-449-6. IA baltimorecountyp0000unse.
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Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 18 past nominations.
charlotte 👸♥ 01:48, 24 March 2025 (UTC).
Nice work, looks good. New enough, long enough. I don't have access to Baltimore County Police, 1874–1999 but will AGF you didn't plagiarize from it and that it supports the hook. QPQ is good.- The main concern is hook interestingness. This isn't a fact about Stansbury, this is a fact about Some Other Guy, and it's not even directly tied to Stansbury (e.g. the article doesn't say Stansbury undermined Meyer and drove him out or the like). Temporary successors are very common. I would suggest that a hook on assigning officers to combat chicken theft, or him smoking a pipe called "Sherlock Holmes" to solve crimes (not in the article, but it's in the obituary), might be random-reader friendlier facts. Happy to draw up some suggested hooks if you'd like, or can wait on other hook suggestions. SnowFire (talk) 17:22, 29 March 2025 (UTC)
- Hello SnowFire; thank you for the review and sorry for the delay. I've added the pipe bit to the article and propose these alts:
- ALT1: ... that Baltimore County Police Department leader Carroll E. Stansbury assigned officers to combat chicken theft?
- Source: Ibid, p. 26.
- ALT2: ... that Baltimore County Police Department leader Carroll E. Stansbury smoked "Sherlock Holmes" during tough criminal investigations?
- Source: "County's former police head dies". The Baltimore Sun. June 21, 1947. p. 22. Retrieved March 19, 2025 – via Newspapers.com.
Great. ALT1 and ALT2 are approved, although if ALT2 goes through, please repeat the reference after that sentence per WP:DYKCITE (or just do it now as a temporary measure, can always revert it later) due to the sourcing-the-hook rule. Quirky slot suggested. SnowFire (talk) 05:19, 8 April 2025 (UTC)