Template:Did you know nominations/Mark Callahan

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:35, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Mark Callahan

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... that 2016 Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Callahan ran for the Oregon House of Representatives under the Green Party label in order to siphon votes from the Democratic candidate? Source: "Callahan said his intent was to help the Republican nominee in the race, Bill Young, by siphoning votes from the eventual winner, Democrat Nancy Nathanson." ([1])

Comment: This is my first DYK nomination, so I understand I am exempt from QPQ.

5x expanded by ImperfectlyInformed (talk) and MB298 (talk). Nominated by MB298 (talk) at 18:13, 8 October 2016 (UTC).

Page has been converted from a redirect recently enough and is long enough. Sourcing issues: state House (source) is not the same thing as both houses of the Oregon Legislative Assembly (article). Source #4 is broken and #5 does not appear relevant to the text sourced to it. The He won the primary over businessman Sam Carpenter, Lane County commissioner Faye Stewart, and business consultant Dan Laschober sentence should probably be changed so that each sentence fragment (as separated by the last comma) has its own post-comma citation. First para of "political positions" and Callahan is currently engaged to be married need a source, especially that later claim. Speaking of political positions, it's probably better for each statement to be sourced directly to the webpage, rather than going through another webpage. He called it a myth (source) is not necessarily the same thing as said, "it’s a myth” (text) as he might have said something else. Where is it said that is children are female? Some election results are sourced to broken links. Article is neutral but sourcing issues in a biography on a living person are a bad thing. I presume that the sources given are reliable? Didn't notice any copyright issues or plagiarism. Hook is moderately interesting and sourced inline, but I worry it may focus too much on political actions that look underhanded and could thus violate WP:DYKNOT and WP:DYKHOOK (the part about negative aspects). Finally, I think that since Callahan is a live candidate for the 2016 Oregon election, this DYK should be handled in the "November 10 or later (after November 8 U.S. elections)" section. No QPQ needed. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:52, 8 October 2016 (UTC)
- Long enough, new enough, prose checks out. I see no problems with the prose. Interesting article. Good work!BabbaQ (talk) 20:22, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

@ImperfectlyInformed and MB298: The source backing up the hook claim is broken. Can you repair it? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:17, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

@Cwmhiraeth: I've added a web.archive.org link (it appears the original article has been removed from Oregonlive.com). MB298 (talk) 06:23, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:35, 24 November 2016 (UTC)