Template:Did you know nominations/Ed Barrow

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The result was: promoted by Miyagawa (talk) 12:11, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

Ed Barrow

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... that Baseball Hall of Fame executive Ed Barrow (pictured) discovered Honus Wagner, converted Babe Ruth into an outfielder, and pioneered the first uniform numbers?

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/John Rolls
Comment: I'm not near done with this article (still a work in progress before GA and FA noms), but it's at 5x now. There's a bunch of things from this article that can be mixed and matched for this hook, and I'm open to anything

Created/expanded by Muboshgu (talk). Self nom at 19:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

ALT1... that Baseball Hall of Fame executive Ed Barrow (pictured) worked as a reporter and operated a hotel, movie theater, and soap-selling business?
ALT2... that Baseball Hall of Fame executive Ed Barrow (pictured) fought John L. Sullivan in an exhibition match?

Hook: I like all of them. Cited. Short enough.

Article: New enough, long enough. Well-referenced, but the Google News archives are not well formatted. No close paraphrasing.

Summary:

Fix the formatting. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:45, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

I hate that Reflinks can't do any better than that for Google News archives results, and I do intend to fully flesh out those references before I take this to GA, but to point out the DYK requirement on references, it just says no bare url's, and these aren't bare. I will start converting them now, and hopefully have them done before this hits the main page, since as I said, I am planning on taking this to GA. – Muboshgu (talk) 14:12, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

If you say so. Those look essentially bare to me, but not in the guidelines to refuse on that alone. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:14, 21 July 2012 (UTC)