Talk:Jack Smith (lawyer)/Archive 1

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Did you know nomination

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 Kingsif (talk) 04:44, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

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Jack Smith
Jack Smith

Created by Muboshgu (talk). Self-nominated at 22:43, 18 November 2022 (UTC).

  • This is not hooky. It's the best-known fact about him. The fact that he's already won convictions of officeholders would be far better. Rutsq (talk) 00:32, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
    • I don't see how that's hookier, but ALT1 added. – Muboshgu (talk) 02:50, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
  • ALT1 ... that Jack Smith (pictured), the special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump, oversaw the prosecutions of Sheldon Silver, Bob McDonnell, Rick Renzi, and Jeffrey Sterling?
  • Article is new & long enough. Appropriately referenced and no evidence of copyvio. QPQ done. Rutsq's objection doesn't make much sense to me. There is nothing mutually exclusive between "best-known" (not synonymous with "boring" or "obvious") and "hooky" facts. Accordingly, I prefer the original hook to ALT1. Kingoflettuce (talk) 05:23, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
  • @Muboshgu: could you clarify what review you're using for your QPQ? -- RoySmith (talk) 14:06, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
  • ALT2: ... that Jack Smith (pictured), the special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump, is a competitive triathlete despite not becoming a swimmer until he was in his midthirties? Valereee (talk) 18:47, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
  • ALT3: ... that Jack Smith (pictured), the special counsel appointed to investigate Donald Trump, has experience prosecuting government officials for misconduct.
    • I suggest this is less ho-hum than the initial proposal and avoids presenting a series of unfamiliar names as ALT1 does. Rutsq (talk) 17:23, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Wife

It would be interesting to identify Smith's wife since she is a documentary filmmaker of note according to the interview Smith gave HERE in January 2018.

My wife is an amazing, award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her latest movie, Dark Money just premiered at the Sundance Film Festival last week and she was awarded the prestigious Producer’s Award for her work in documentary film, which was very cool. Her previous movie, E-Team, was nominated for an Emmy and is on Netflix. She also recently won the award for best screenplay at the Nashville Film Festival.

Rutsq (talk) 00:56, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Identified as Katy Chevigny in Special:Diff/1122832709. – Recoil (talk) 10:56, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

special counsels

Currently we have Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019)

Should we rename that Mueller special counsel investigation and create Smith special counsel investigation?

soibangla (talk) 01:27, 26 November 2022 (UTC)

Wouldn't it make sense to ask that question at Talk:Special Counsel investigation (2017–2019)? Rutsq (talk) 05:07, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
Creating Smith Special Counsel investigation (with the proper capitalization) is IMO an obvious move; it's one of the very rare subjects which are inherently notable, even though it'll have to start as a tiny stub. DFlhb (talk) 23:36, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

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special counsel article now up

Smith special counsel investigation soibangla (talk) 01:03, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Rutsq (talk) 02:49, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

name change

On April 4th at 8:30pm during a speech at Mara Lago, Donald Trump alluded to a name change of "Jack Smith". What was his name prior to Jack Smith? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.191.33.2 (talk) 00:42, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

His name is "John L. Smith". "Jack" is a common hypocorism of "John". Remember the 1988 vice presidential debate? Lloyd Bentsen said to Dan Quayle: "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy" in reference to John F. Kennedy. As to what Trump is talking about, who knows? He's likely just sewing seeds of doubt. – Muboshgu (talk) 00:46, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
I noticed that bit too, after hearing parts of Trump's rambling speech several times during the last week, and my instant reaction was that he's dogwhistling "you know the guy is really Asian, right? he's not one of US!". Trump, of course, makes several dodgy allusions to "China" in that part of his talk, and I suspect this is one of them... 188.150.64.57 (talk) 19:33, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 June 2023

Change "lead" to "led" under section "Career," last sentence. TGIMC (talk) 19:12, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

 Done. Inexplicably, that's among the most common spelling errors occurring in recent years here. Next time, just go ahead and WP:FIXIT. Zefr (talk) 19:19, 14 June 2023 (UTC)

Omission of critical details

Why is it not on the page that "Jack Smith" was born Avi Hauermann and he isn't a US citizen? Seems like important details and the article sort of structurally avoids mentioning this, almost like a lie by omission. It seems like his background is being deliberately hidden. -- 24.91.187.29 (talk) 02:22, 5 January 2024 (UTC)

Do you have a source for that? Because with Google, all I see are some Q-adjacent conspiracy theories. – Muboshgu (talk) 02:29, 5 January 2024 (UTC)
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