Talk:Dick Caine

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: rejected by reviewer, closed by Launchballer talk 00:49, 6 October 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that Dick Caine was convicted in 2024 for 39 sexual offences committed against his teenage female students in the 1970s and 1980s?

• Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg3qmj2pz5o

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Created by Ibjaja055 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Ibjaja055 (talk) 09:42, 29 September 2024 (UTC).

• @Ibjaja055: Not a review, but this fails WP:BLPBALANCE (pinging @Schwede66: who raised this at WP:ITN).--Launchballer 11:28, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you Launchballer for this. I have updated the article with some of his achievements. However, I am afraid a complete balance cannot be justify because most of his achievements are not available online. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ibjaja055 (talk • contribs) 07:51, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

I've given this a trim myself, so this is just over 1500 characters. Not entirely convinced we should be giving front page focus to this, but I'm going to chicken out and let someone else make that decision.--Launchballer 23:09, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

As my ITN comment is just about to be archived, here's a copy of it: More than half of the content is about his child sex offences and that violates WP:BLPBALANCE in my books. His bio would have to be expanded quite a bit to address that. As it stands, it's almost an attack page. If there's nothing else to say about him, then it's simply not main page worthy. Schwede66 23:36, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

I have to agree here. Despite the conviction and all, the article in its current state may fail WP:DYKBLP, if only in spirit. Some articles are not good fits for DYK and this is probably one of them. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 23:31, 5 October 2024 (UTC)