Talk:Cal Anderson

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Review: August 27, 2022. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Cal Anderson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 June 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Cal Anderson was the first openly gay member of the Washington State Legislature?

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Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Desertarun (talk) 08:37, 15 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Cal Anderson was the first openly gay member of the Washington State Legislature? "Anderson, Cal (1948-1995)". HistoryLink. December 26, 2012. Archived from the original on June 2, 2021.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mariela Muñoz
Comment: Can this be put on the main page before June ends since it is Pride month?

5x expanded by Jon698 (talk). Self-nominated at 16:07, 5 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems:

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: This is my first DYK review, so I may have made minor errors. For this reason I am requesting that another reviewer take a look. Rizzle13 (talk) 17:22, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is nicely done, and I mean that in reference to both the article expansion and the review (which I double-checked). Good to go. ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 23:48, 7 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Cal Anderson/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 15:21, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:21, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The image is appropriately tagged; sources are reliable.

"Anderson won the most votes, fifty-one out of one hundred sixteen, at the precinct representatives meeting to recommend a person to fill the vacancy in the 43rd district created by Niemi's resignation from the Washington House of Representatives to join the state senate." Long and hard to parse; can you rephrase?
"He was one of the three nominees on the presented list alongside Harvey Muggy, who replaced Pat Thibaudeau, and Gene Peterson" I don't follow this. What's the "presented list"? Presented to whom? And if Muggy is replacing Thibaudeau, not Niemi, why is he listed here?

Overall the article is in good shape; just a couple of points to fix above. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:41, 25 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Mike Christie: Thank you. I will do the edits for both Cal Anderson and Addo Bonetti once I get time tomorrow. Jon698 (talk) 03:08, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
OK -- will check back in a few days if I don't hear from you. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:24, 26 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- @Mike Christie: I have done some edits to fix the problems you have with the article. Jon698 (talk) 15:15, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  Passing. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 15:30, 27 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Spotchecks

Jon698, I neglected to do spotchecks when I did the GA review for this article, so I'm doing a couple now. The NYT article that cites 'Anderson stated that he was once caught in drag, but was only given a short reprimand with the commander stating "Now, I don't care what people do in their own time, but the Army doesn't feel that way, so in the future, be more discreet"' doesn't actually say "in drag", but "in the act". It mentions Mary Humphrey's book My Country, My Right to Serve as the source; that might have more specifics, and it sounds like that would be a good source for this article anyway. The other citations I checked were fine. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:16, 12 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I went ahead and made the change. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 16:16, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]