Talk:Charles F. Barlow

Did you know nomination

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 Bruxton (talk) 19:09, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that Charles F. Barlow helped to fund his medical education with his magic act, The Great Barloni? Source: "raising funds to pay for college with his act "The Great Barloni", "Calling himself the Great Barloni, he performed magic shows to help finance his education."
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Judge Lu

Created by 97198 (talk). Self-nominated at 00:17, 10 January 2023 (UTC).

• Good overall; paraphrasing of cited sources may need possible check
  • New enough (nomination on day of creation)
  • Long enough (+2 kB readable prose)
  • Within policy (neutral, cites reliable secondary sources with inline citations)
    Note: partly close paraphrasing with online sources, check result of Earwig's copyvio tool (should be easy to fix)
  • Format (short and exciting hook – good!)
  • Content: hook fact accurate and sourced with inline citation in article, neutral and does not focus unduly on negative aspects of living people
  • QPQ done

If others judge the paraphrasing as fine, I'm happy to give my support. Henni147 (talk) 13:39, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

@Henni147: Thanks for reviewing. I have reworded in a couple of places but I don't believe the remaining flagged text by Earwig is problematic, as they are either titles (of positions or textbooks) or common phrases. Let me know what you think. 97198 (talk) 07:29, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

@97198: Yes, I think it should be fine now. Thanks for your quick adjustments. Henni147 (talk) 09:00, 11 January 2023 (UTC)

@97198 and Henni147: Hi, I rewrote a few sentences to avoid close paraphrasing. In think this one is ready to be promoted, and has an interesting hook! I or someone else can promote it when a slot is available. Bruxton (talk) 17:15, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Image of the magician

Might be a PD image if we can find out where and when this was published. He is in his (image) magician outfit and the picture is presumably from the 1940s. In the meantime I will add a Non-free image to the article. I cannot find any readily available free images of the man. Bruxton (talk) 17:34, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Sections

Per MOS:BODY and MOS:ORDER I have sectioned the article. Articles longer than a stub are generally divided into sections, and sections over a certain length are generally divided into paragraphs; these divisions enhance the readability of the article. Bruxton (talk) 18:55, 15 January 2023 (UTC)