Talk:Clair McCollough

A fact from Clair McCollough appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 March 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Clair McCollough rose from being a carrier boy for Lancaster Newspapers to presiding over the broadcast station group spawned by the company?

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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 Valereee (talk) 18:25, 6 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Clair McCollough rose from being a carrier boy for Lancaster Newspapers to presiding over the broadcast station group spawned by the company? Source: [1] and https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/03/us/clair-mccollough-92-executive-who-repaired-tv-s-reputation.html
- ALT1:... that at the age of eight, Clair McCollough was run over by a horse and buggy while playing in the street in York, Pennsylvania? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/69066407/team-runs-over-boy-on-street/
- ALT2:... that Clair McCollough was selected to head a commission tasked with cleaning up the broadcasting industry in the United States? Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/69070108/mccollough-named-to-post-on-tv-cleanup/, https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/03/us/clair-mccollough-92-executive-who-repaired-tv-s-reputation.html

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Rusdy Mastura
Comment: Thanks to User:MrLinkinPark333 for inspiring the topic and cleaning up the copy after moving to mainspace.

Moved to mainspace by Sammi Brie (talk). Self-nominated at 06:40, 14 February 2021 (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:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Good article. Checked sources, all accessible, no further concerns. ~~I found some sources that might help. Book here mentioned that he was born on 3 December, so probably you might do a little bit of math.~~ Also, I have done a bit of copyediting for the article. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 15:44, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The book has no relations to his birth date; it refers to the publication date of this instead. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 16:44, 17 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]