Template:Did you know nominations/Richard J. Ferris

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 03:58, 1 March 2022 (UTC)

Richard J. Ferris

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... that Richard J. Ferris CEO of United Airlines worked a financing scheme with Boeing Corporation to prevent hostile takeovers of his company? Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/united-airlines-chief-tried-to-create-a-one-stop-travel-shop-11642690802
- ALT1: ... that Richard J. Ferris CEO of United Airlines worked a financing scheme of planes from Boeing Corporation by paying $700 million in convertible notes that could be exchanged for 16% of common stock to avoid hostile takeovers of his company? Source: https://www.wsj.com/articles/united-airlines-chief-tried-to-create-a-one-stop-travel-shop-11642690802
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cece Carlucci

5x expanded by Ktin (talk). Self-nominated at 03:29, 21 January 2022 (UTC).

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: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 04:08, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

@TonyTheTiger: Re-introduced the citations. Someone had edited after my last edit and the edits had dropped the citations. Should be good to go now. Please have a look at your convenience. Ktin (talk) 16:58, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

Now gtg.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 00:25, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

On hold per Wikipedia talk:Did you know#Negative hook. SL93 (talk) 15:39, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Valereee stated a point on the DYK talk page that I agree with when it comes to American English - that scheme is generally thought of as negative.

ALT2 ... that Richard J. Ferris CEO of United Airlines worked a financing plan with Boeing Corporation to prevent hostile takeovers of his company? SL93 (talk) 21:35, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

I'm approving ALT2, as I think this is a good wording. — Maile (talk) 21:43, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

I am fine with swapping plan in for scheme.-TonyTheTiger (T / C / WP:FOUR / WP:CHICAGO / WP:WAWARD) 15:18, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Promoting ALT2 to Prep 3 – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 03:58, 1 March 2022 (UTC)