Template talk:Did you know/"I thought he was kind of a dick yesterday"

"I thought he was kind of a dick yesterday"[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as 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: rejected

... that MSNBC's senior political analyst Mark Halperin was suspended indefinitely after he called Obama a "dick" on the Morning Joe?

Created by Smallman12q (talk). Self nom at 15:57, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure this is notable; these sorts of news gaffes happen all the time and just because a lot of people comment on it doesn't necessarily mean it's notable.
Also, I'm not sure the title is the best title. It doesn't seem like a very encyclopedic description of the event (a more WP-like title would be something like "Mark Halperin's comments about Barack Obama" or yada yada). rʨanaɢ (talk) 21:12, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is this incident separately notable? Shouldn't this be part of Mark Halperin? I don't think article will survive an AfD, if somebody files one. Also, just from reading the article, it sounds as if Halperin had a potty-mouth problem before this latest live gaffe, so the proposed hook's claim he was suspended only for this one incident would be hard to prove. Sharktopus ^talk 23:37, 29 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Virtually all the sources say he was fired for the remark. If you disapprove of the title, feel free to rename.Smallman12q (talk) 11:39, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I put a Merge tag on the article. It looks like a WP:FORK of Mark Halperin that gives WP:UNDUE weight to public humiliation of a living person. I do not mean to criticize the article's creator or submitter for this, however. It is completely understandable that something so public and WP:RECENT attracts attention, but this incident should go back into the person's article and have no more WP:WEIGHT there than is appropriate to the length of the rest of the person's bio. Sharktopus ^talk 12:16, 30 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]