A fact from Theo Baker appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 August 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that reporting by Theo Baker, a freshman student journalist, led to the resignation of Stanford University president Marc Tessier-Lavigne?
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Latest comment: 1 year ago3 comments2 people in discussion
Hi @Cerebral726, can you please explain why you are not convinced the "nepo baby" comment is not worth including? I think it's pretty relevant to him - just about every story I've read about Baker has mentioned his parents, which is unusual and noteworthy in itself. People are going to think of nepotism regardless of what we mention, so I think it's fair (in the sense of BLP considerations) to include how he addressed it. Maybe we can also include something along the lines of what he said to BuzzFeed News about his parents having no role in this, "...that you are going to have no hand in this, and it’s going to stay that way". Legoktm (talk) 06:20, 27 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
I think my concern was that the source used at the time was kind of a throwaway line, and stripped the context of his "my parents don't have Polk Awards", which was clearly supposed to be a joke. Feel free to include that BuzzFeed source, since it focuses on that much more. Cerebral726 (talk) 14:26, 27 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Cerebral726: gotcha, thanks for explaining. I've added in the BuzzFeed News source plus another thing I found in Teen Vogue about his grandfather. Please let me know what you think! (I'm not in love with the quote but couldn't think of a better way to phrase it right now.) Legoktm (talk) 06:39, 28 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
Latest comment: 1 year ago9 comments6 people in discussion
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) 15:56, 15 August 2023 (UTC)Reply pulled and reopened by theleekycauldron (talk) 01:11, 2023 August 25 no further action needed, closed by Narutolovehinata5 (talk) 03:53, 31 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
Note that the article had already been promoted and ran on the Main Page on August 25, and apart from a brief pull due to a since-deleted AFD, was able to run for most of its scheduled run. No further action is needed here, this is just the formal close.
Overall: @Legoktm and PK-WIKI: Nice work on this article. My preference is for ALT2 or ALT0 if the hooks remain unchanged. If ALT1 is used, I suggest revising it to clarify that the George Polk Awards are for journalism. Epicgenius (talk) 18:52, 28 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
@BorgQueen: hmm. I think that looking back, it might've been better to requeue it rather than putting it back on the Main Page, but I also think we generally rule that articles that make it through that much of their run don't get another chance. Pull something eight out of twelve hours in, for example, that's probably all it wrote. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 08:15, 26 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
@Legoktm and PK-WIKI: Nice work on this article. My preference is for ALT2 or ALT0 if the hooks remain unchanged. If ALT1 is used, I suggest revising it to clarify that the George Polk Awards are for journalism. Epicgenius (talk) 18:52, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
article was sent to AfD before it hit the Main Page, so I've pulled it. If it survives the AfD process, it can be rerun. theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/her) 01:12, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
Marking it for the closure then. BorgQueen (talk) 21:53, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
