Talk:Carl Huntington

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: rejected by Feminist (talk) 15:48, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
Significantly shorter than required, with no response from nominator

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• ... that Carl Huntington won both the Iditarod (a distance mushing competion) and the Open World Championship (a speed mushing competition) in the same year? Source: [1]

Created by Jordano53 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:24, 27 February 2020 (UTC).

• Oppose for now — As the article existed when it was nominated, it's more an article about the Iditarod than a biography of a person. The feat of winning the Iditarod and a major sprint race back-to-back is only viewed with awe in retrospect. At the time, there was nothing special about it because sprint racing was king at the time and many sprint racers at least attempted the Iditarod in its early years before choosing to specialize in one racing style or another. There's also the fact that the Iditarod simply wasn't as big a deal in 1974 as it's been in recent years. The existing article reads like the minimum of effort was made to qualify it for a DYK. I'm looking through newspaper archive sites as I write this in the hopes of finding better source material. So far, it's looking up. I wonder if anyone else is going to bother, seeing as how we continue to call ourselves a collaborative effort. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 23:59, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

• @Jordano53 and RadioKAOS: Unfortunately, this article isn't even long enough to meet the minimum length of 1,500 prose characters (it is currently half of that, or 709 prose characters). Please note that prose characters are different than length characters and are calculated by the length of the readable text. If you still feel like this page can be expanded past the 1,500-byte readable prose size, let me know. epicgenius (talk) 00:31, 29 February 2020 (UTC)

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The Anchorage Daily News reported Huntington as 53 years old on January 1, 2000 (a "century in recap"-type story) and as 52 on October 18 of that same year (a column by Lew Freedman reflecting on his life following word of his death). I'm not finding a published obituary anywhere and other resources have been restricted in recent years, defaulting to the same old "privacy" boogeyman. As his father was Sidney Huntington, it's quite likely he wasn't born in Galena, as I don't believe they had moved there by that point.

An interesting quote from Freedman: "During the mid-1990s, I occasionally talked mushing with Huntington. He was concerned at the time that Native mushers living off the road system seemed to be priced out of the Iditarod.", which is an argument I've heard before. Various sources also refer to him as one of the best-known people in Alaska during the 1970s. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 04:58, 28 February 2020 (UTC)