Talk:William S. White

A fact from William S. White appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 October 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that William S. White took a two month break from The New York Times to write the book that won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography?

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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 Gatoclass (talk) 21:41, 18 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... that William S. White took a two month break from the New York Times to write the book that won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography? Source: p. 651
- ALT1:... that William S. White received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and Presidential Medal of Freedom while working in journalism for almost five full decades? Source: p. 164 and 165

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Debut (Jackie Evancho album)
Comment: He started with the Associated Press in 1926 and retired in 1973, therefore not fully five decades.

Moved to mainspace by MrLinkinPark333 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:15, 16 October 2019 (UTC).[reply]

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:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Good to go, but I did make some stylistic changes to the article. I greatly prefer ALT0 for its brevity (though it could be made shorter by piping down to "Pulitzer Prize" and omitting the year), as ALT1 is a bit too broad. Sounder Bruce 06:52, 17 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]