Talk:Douglas Applegate

GA Review

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Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 12:38, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 12:38, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Images are appropriately tagged; sources are reliable.

• "Applegate married Betty, with whom he had two children": I think it sounds weird to say it like this, though I know it's because we don't have her last name. Suggest "Applegate's wife was named Betty, and they had two children", which sounds marginally less odd.
• "being the only person to defeat an incumbent senator in the 1968 election": suggest something like "being the only person in Ohio to defeat an incumbent state senator in..." since I assume those are the parameters here.
• "which cost Ohio around $2,800": seems irrelevant to this article.
• The sequence of events around Applegate's plans and then the Hays scandal is a bit confusing, because you mention Milleson replacing Applegate before talking about the scandal. I think this would be easier to understand if it were strictly chronological.
• "Applegate defeated Republican nominee Ralph R. McCoy...": make it explicit that this is the 1976 US House election. I know that's implied but it's not clearly stated anywhere.
• The long lists of dollars raised and spent aren't particularly readable inline and are only interesting if there's some reason to mention them such as a scandal about the way the money was raised. You might consider adding the dollar figures to the election tables at the end. You could then compress the text and make it much more readable.

That's everything. It's a very dry list of facts, but it seems comprehensive and isn't badly written, so I think it can pass with no problems once the minor issues above are addressed. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 17:32, 29 August 2022 (UTC)

Earwig finds no issues. Spotchecks:

• FN 13 cites "In 1965, he was named as one of America's outstanding young men by the U.S Junior Chamber of Commerce and was also nominated for the Ohio League of Young Democrat Clubs for their John F. Kennedy award." Verified. The phrasing is close but these are standard wordings using that can't really be changed so I think it's fine.
• FN 77 cites "Applegate announced that he would not seek reelection on January 3, 1994". Technically the article doesn't state anywhere that he made the announcement on January 3, but I think that's OK -- the paper is dated 4 January and it's written as current news.
• FN 113 cites 'He was critical of Dukakis' selection of Lloyd Bentsen stating that it would hurt the campaign due as "Bentsen doesn't have the national image and there's very little that he can do for the midwest, at least as far as I can see. John Glenn can do more for the south than Bentsen can in the midwest, and the polls showed that."' Verified.

Jon698, checking in to see if you're planning to work on this? Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 08:38, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

• @Mike Christie: Yes I'll start work on it later today. Jon698 (talk) 13:01, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
  • @Mike Christie: I have made edits to fix some of the problems you had with the article. However, I don't really know what to do with the dollar amounts. They are important parts of elections, but I can't really think of a way to present them in a different way. Jon698 (talk) 18:28, 14 September 2022 (UTC)

    I think a table at the end, the way you've handled the election details, would be fine. Something like this:

	$ spent; ($ raised) (where known)
Election	Applegate	Opponents
1976 US House	$20,073	McCoy $12,218; Crabbe $8,796
1982 US House primary	$50,572 ($64,369)	No data
1986 US House	$83,591 ($104,752)	Unopposed

I have to say I don't think this is critically important data to have in the article, but if you want to keep it I think it has to come out of the running text. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 00:07, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

• @Mike Christie: Done. Jon698 (talk) 14:19, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

  That works. Passing. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 14:28, 18 September 2022 (UTC)