Talk:Joseph Bachelder III

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A fact from Joseph Bachelder III appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 January 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Joseph Bachelder III, pioneer of the golden-parachute executive compensation structure, represented John Sculley at Apple Inc., Jamie Dimon at Citigroup, and Louis Gerstner at RJR Nabisco and IBM?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Joseph Bachelder III.

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:47, 7 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Joseph Bachelder III, pioneer of the golden parachute executive compensation structure represented John Sculley at Apple, Jamie Dimon at Citigroup, and Louis Gerstner at RJR Nabisco and IBM? Source: NYT1 NYT2

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Swati Thiyagarajan

Created by Ktin (talk). Self-nominated at 18:17, 29 December 2020 (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: Everything looks good here. Krakkos (talk) 19:36, 29 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

There is way too much blue-linking in the hook. I suggest:
ALT1: ... that Joseph Bachelder III, pioneer of the golden parachute executive compensation structure, represented John Sculley at Apple Inc., Jamie Dimon at Citigroup, and Louis Gerstner at RJR Nabisco and IBM? Yoninah (talk) 21:53, 31 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Yoninah and Krakkos: OK. No problem. Just curious, is there a guidance on this topic? The closest I can think of is that recent NZ legislative DYK which had links for all legislators. Either way, proceed as you deem fit. Thanks. Ktin (talk) 22:23, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Ktin: Each of those names was a bolded link. These are just names in a hook. There are two streams of thought about this. One is just to bold the subject and leave everything else unlinked; you'll find out about everything once you click on the bolded article. The other is to link unfamiliar names/things in order to encourage viewership of other Wikipedia articles. But a hook that has blue every other word is a bit hard to read. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 22:27, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Yoninah: sounds good. Let's go with ALT1. I did not know that we could bold links in the hook that were not part of the DYK process (i.e. non DYK article). TIL. Cheers. ALT1 looks clean. Ktin (talk) 22:34, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Ktin: please read my edited comment. I meant "link", not "bold". Yoninah (talk) 22:50, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Yoninah: Perfect. This makes more sense. Thanks for the edited comment, the earlier one had bold, and hence my question. Cheers. Good to go with ALT1. Ktin (talk) 22:52, 2 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]