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George R. Dale

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George R. Dale (center) in 1926

... that newspaper editor George R. Dale (pictured) wore a hat with a bullet hole, supposedly inflicted by the Ku Klux Klan?

Source: [1] He took to wearing a hat with a bullet hole, presumably to demonstrate the poor aim of a trigger-happy Klansman.
[2] A showman not always committed to fact, Dale wore a hat with a hole he said had been made by a Klan bullet.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/GOAT (sports culture)
Comment: The image I selected might need to be cropped to appear in DYK, but I think it's a nice photo.

5x expanded by Vigilantcosmicpenguin (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 36 past nominations.

— Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 22:14, 31 March 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Great hook! I wouldn't run this image with it, though, the hook makes you look for the hat, I had to open it at full size to confirm it wasn't there.

Ref spotcheck nitpick, not enough to hold back the nom: Smith has "He had been editor of weeklies that were credited with closing the saloons in nearby Hartford City and Montpelier.", wheras the article has "his reporting". I'm not sure "his reporting" is a reasonable extrapolation of him being the editor. Rusalkii (talk) 21:51, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

George R. Dale in 1929

@Rusalkii: Rephrased to "his newspapers". As for your concern about the image, perhaps it'd be better to to use the lead image instead, as it's a clear headshot that alleviates the hat problem. — Vigilant Cosmic Penguin 🐧 (talk | contribs) 04:39, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

Eh, the hook really suggests that a hat is going to be pictured, this image is somewhat better but not by that much. I don't fundamentally object, if the promoter wants to run with the image consider it approved, but just my 2c. Rusalkii (talk) 06:20, 3 April 2025 (UTC)