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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 Yoninah (talk18:20, 30 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that James R. Shepley coined "Merrill's Marauders" as a reporter, wrote inaccurately about the hydrogen bomb as a book author, and birthed HBO as an executive? Source: see footnotes 1,2, and 9 for the first part, 18 and 19 for the second part, and 7 and 34 for the third part

Created by Wasted Time R (talk). Self-nominated at 23:15, 12 August 2020 (UTC).[reply]

  • Comment: The DYK comes across as a three-ring circus, and while "inaccurately" appears to be true, that phrase does not make me want to click to the article. Consider proposing alternative DYKs. David notMD (talk) 15:11, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Well, I think it's still worth trying to capture that he's one of the few reporters who became a successful publishing executive. So how about:
Or if the two-ring circus is too much, each of the individual items can be expanded:
Or the last could be preceded by a bit of the first:
  • ALT5: ... that World War II war correspondent James R. Shepley has been called "the father of" HBO?
ALT5 is kind of hooky. Personally, I still think ALT0 has value. And ALT2 may be of interest to military history readers, of which WP has a lot. Wasted Time R (talk) 21:37, 14 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Vincent60030: Thanks for the review and I'm agreeable to going forward with ALT5. Good point about the NYT obit quotes – I have replaced one with an alternate source and eliminated another. So now there are only two quotes from it, which I think should be okay. Wasted Time R (talk) 12:59, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Alright. We're all set! Yes that really helped :D VincentLUFan (talk) (Kenton!) 14:16, 22 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]