Talk:Dane Hansen

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 18:19, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that Dane Hansen started a road construction business with about 100 mules he was unable to sell to the US Army after World War I ended? Source: [1] ("Operating the mule supply operations successfully until the war ended in 1918, Hansen found himself left with nearly one hundred mules. Solving a problem with a creative solution, Hansen established a road construction business using the mules to pull the grading and paving equipment."), [2] ("Suddenly the war was over, and Dane Hansen had more than 100 mules with no market for them.")
  • ALT1: ... that Dane Hansen, a personal friend of Dwight D. Eisenhower, would only work in politics if he wasn't paid for it? Source: [3] ("He commented, I’ll take any political job if there’s no pay in it. My services are always free.")
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/January 1982 California floods
  • Comment: Per note [a] on the article, sources vary a bit on the number of mules he had left, so I went with "about 100" for the hook. Thanks for the time and effort in reviewing this!

Moved to mainspace by Bsoyka (talk). Self-nominated at 03:28, 22 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Dane Hansen; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

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:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Hey Bsoyka, thanks for writing this article! I have concerns about the neutrality of § Generosity; the header is already less than ideal, but calling Hansen a "generous benefactor" is not acceptable. As for the hooks, I prefer ALT0, but recommend that "mules" is unlinked per MOS:OVERLINK. The phrasing of "about 100" to allude to the conflicting sources sounds good to me. I don't see any problems apart from those. Since this is my first review at DYK, I'd prefer a second opinion before putting the stamp on this. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:34, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

@TechnoSquirrel69: Thanks for the review! I totally agree with your concerns, and I've merged the content from the "Generosity" section into "Death and legacy" while attempting to use more neutral language—let me know your thoughts there. I've also unlinked mules in the hook. Bsoyka (t • c • g) 22:04, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

No further concerns; this looks good enough to me to be approved. I'm just waiting on a second opinion at this point. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:10, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

@Bsoyka and TechnoSquirrel69: I see some issues with WP:CLOP here. Earwig returns 24% similarity, and while some of that is proper titles and stuff that can't be reworded, there are some bits that probably can be reworded, for example ...one of the state's largest independent oil producers. ^Queenof_Hearts 22:29, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

@Queen of Hearts and TechnoSquirrel69: Dropped to 9.9% and don't think there's much else I can realistically reword as you mentioned. Thanks for the catch—CLOP can be one of my weak points sometimes. Bsoyka (t • c • g) 03:15, 30 January 2024 (UTC)

^Queenof_Hearts 03:26, 30 January 2024 (UTC)