Template:Did you know nominations/Disappearance of Jerry Michael Williams
- 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 BlueMoonset (talk) 05:24, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
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Disappearance of Jerry Michael Williams[edit]
- ... that Michael Williams' apparent disappearance 15 years ago today is the only time the body of someone believed to have drowned in Lake Seminole has not been found?
- ALT1:... that searchers believed Michael Williams' body had been eaten by alligators in Lake Seminole after he disappeared 15 years ago today—until they learned alligators don't feed in winter?
- ALT2:
... that Florida's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Department of Financial Services and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have all investigated the disappearance of Jerry Michael Williams 15 years ago today? - ALT3:... that after Michael Williams disappeared 15 years ago today from his home in Tallahassee, Florida, his widow married the man who had sold the couple a $1.5 million life insurance policy?
- Reviewed: Meithalun, Marj Sanur
- Comment: As should be clear from the hooks, I have submitted this for the event's 15-year anniversary, on December 16.
Created by Daniel Case (talk). Self-nominated at 22:54, 12 November 2015 (UTC).
New enough, long enough, well referenced, neutrally written, no close paraphrasing seen. I have one question about the referencing: 9 out of 12 sources are from the local paper, the Tallahassee Democrat. Do missing persons cases have to have wider coverage to meet notability? Regarding the hooks, I struck ALT2 as the least interesting; the others are all verified and cited inline. My preference is for ALT1. QPQ done. Yoninah (talk) 20:22, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
- @Yoninah: I did sort of anticipate this issue. would suggest that the fact that the case has been the subject of an episode of Disappeared, a TV show on the Investigation Discovery network, which gets nationwide distribution, as well as later being made available on DVD and streaming media, constitutes that wider coverage. Daniel Case (talk) 00:04, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
