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A fact from John F. Good appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 November 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that John F. Good's role in the Abscam sting operation was portrayed in the 2013 film American Hustle, though he felt if it was more like real life "it would be a very boring movie"?
I'm afraid this article typifies the shortcomings of "obitu-articles": they omit much of their subject's early life (parents' names? siblings?), and later life often gets short shrift as well (did he marry? have children?). Obituaries, by their nature, tend to be glowing reviews of carefully selected aspects of the deceased's life. The shortcomings are magnified if something the subject did was made into a movie—the article (most likely like the obituary) tends to be dominated by the movie. There are just two non-obituary, non-movie-related sources, and one of them is a court case. Aren't there any more? --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 17:20, 1 November 2016 (UTC)Reply
