Template:Did you know nominations/Merrill Piepkorn

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The result was: promoted by Lightburst talk 21:49, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Merrill Piepkorn

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Merrill Piepkorn

... that North Dakota state senator Merrill Piepkorn (pictured) is also a musician, radio host, and public address announcer?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Heike Heubach and Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph Drummond
- Comment: Open to anything more interesting as a hook

5x expanded by Muboshgu (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 528 past nominations.

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– Muboshgu (talk) 23:09, 5 April 2024 (UTC).

Date of birth must be supported by an inline citation.Marshelec (talk) 03:25, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Unreferenced dates of birth should be removed on sight per WP:BLP, which is what I've done.--Laun chba ller 20:41, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

I do not know where that DOB came from, which was there before expansion. I don't see any sources for it, and I won't die on the hill of trying to reinsert it. – Muboshgu (talk) 22:28, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

*I shall review this. Storye book (talk) 15:26, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

* I have added here an extracted image taken from the article ID image. Extracts of article images are permitted at DYK. This image would be clearer as a thumbnail than the parent image from the article. Storye book (talk) 16:06, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

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:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Thank you for a useful article expansion. This article, among other similar ones, will be needed in the upcoming election, so we are lucky to have these contributions. This is good to go, with the cropped picture, which is permissible because it is an extract of the article ID picture.

I have put the year of birth back into the article, with a citation. As I understand it, that is permissible for a living biography subject, provided that the birth year is in the public domain - which it is. Since this person has chosen to be a public representative, he can expect his birth year to be public. Storye book (talk) 16:06, 10 April 2024 (UTC)