Template:Did you know nominations/Paul Loudon
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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 13:09, 13 March 2025 (UTC)
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Paul Loudon
Loudon depicted as a "human battering ram"
- ... that football player Paul Loudon (pictured) was described as a "human battering ram"?
- Source: quote from here
- ALT1: ... that 20 years after his career, football player Paul Loudon used "an old-time flying tackle" to stop a burglar in his home? Source: Star Tribune
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Pieter Vanden Bos
- Comment: To complete QPQ within 24 hours.
Improved to Good Article status by BeanieFan11 (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 314 past nominations.
BeanieFan11 (talk) 22:35, 5 March 2025 (UTC).
Hook facts check out, QPQ present, new enough and long enough. Primary issues I see: "by some" is too generic for in-text attribution of "human battering ram". I also think the personal life section needs some tightening and organizing, as it is quite full of one-sentence paragraphs and even a couple of uncapitalized organization names. I'd like to see those two fixed. Encouragement for BeanieFan11: In Newspapers.com, the label is Star Tribune for all Minneapolis Morning Tribune, Minneapolis Tribune, and toward the end Minneapolis Star and Tribune papers into the late 1980s, before the masthead was actually Star Tribune. I corrected the two instances in body text which were particularly in need of attention, but this is something that I encourage people citing this paper to watch for and have flagged in the past at GAN. This is good advice in certain cities: It is always worth checking for certain merged papers—Minneapolis is one of them prior to the 80s—the masthead accompanying the actual paper.
Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 07:18, 10 March 2025 (UTC)- Thanks for the review. Will fix issues tomorrow. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:21, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Sammi Brie: I changed the "by some" phrase to "He was described by one newspaper as a..." – is that better? Also, I merged some of the sentences in the last section. Which currently uncapitalized organization names do I need to fix? And thanks for the note about the Star Tribune. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:37, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
Leave it to the paper to leave it uncapitalized. I've fixed the big one that I think is egregious. It's ready to go. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 17:32, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
- @Sammi Brie: I changed the "by some" phrase to "He was described by one newspaper as a..." – is that better? Also, I merged some of the sentences in the last section. Which currently uncapitalized organization names do I need to fix? And thanks for the note about the Star Tribune. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:37, 12 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks for the review. Will fix issues tomorrow. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:21, 11 March 2025 (UTC)
