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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 Schwede66 talk 18:47, 17 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • Source: "Senator Watson Gets to Act as Governor a Day". El Paso Herald. January 9, 1915 – via University of North Texas Libraries.
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Created by Aquabluetesla (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

Aquabluetesla (talk) 17:14, 4 July 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Review

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: None required.

Overall: What's most interesting about this guy is his unusual name, which the article doesn't explain. Perhaps someone will figure it out when we run it. Andrew🐉(talk) 15:54, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looking further at this, I find a source which comments on the name without really explaining it. It's The Strangest Names in American Political History and there are three of them. What a great triple hook they would have made.... Andrew🐉(talk) 21:13, 5 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In Latin his name is "Fifth and the Last". It would be interesting to see all three, though I’m not sure how it would be done. Aquabluetesla (talk) 02:09, 12 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]


About the name

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Andrew Davidson and Aquabluetesla, I did some further research, and it seems the name is a hearken to a previous legislator, Decimus et Ultimus Barziza, who was named so as the tenth and last child of his parents. I could not find if Watson had siblings, but if so it seems likely he was the fifth and last of them. Curbon7 (talk) 03:54, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It's a plausible theory but Find a Grave only shows him as one of four children. Maybe there was a baby that died young that made five. We need more evidence. Andrew🐉(talk) 09:49, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]