Talk:G. Gould Lincoln

A fact from G. Gould Lincoln appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 December 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that before entering journalism, G. Gould Lincoln was part of Thomas Edison's team that looked for nickel in Canada?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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 97198 (talk) 11:47, 22 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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G. Gould Lincoln in 1908

... that Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient G. Gould Lincoln (pictured) was a political reporter for the Washington Evening Star for almost six decades? Source: [1]
- ALT1:... that reporter G. Gould Lincoln (pictured) briefly left The Washington Times to become an assistant superintendent for a South Carolina tea plantation? Source: [2] [3]
- ALT2:... that before entering journalism, G. Gould Lincoln (pictured) was part of Thomas Edison's team that looked for Canadian nickel in 1902? Source: [4]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Gayl King
Comment: If picture is not feasible per size, let me know. It's a newspaper clipping in the source cited.

Moved to mainspace by MrLinkinPark333 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:17, 13 November 2019 (UTC).[reply]

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: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Well done, everything checks out for me. For the hook, I think I like ALT2 the best as it is a bit more interesting than the other two. Ffor the photo, perhaps we could just crop a headshot should it be used? Connormah (talk) 22:35, 14 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Connormah: I wouldn't mind if it's cropped out. I'll leave it for whoever comes to promote this nom if this is decided. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 01:53, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]