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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:17, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
... that with a sentence of 241 years, Bobby Bostic has the longest prison sentence given to a juvenile in Missouri for non-homicide offenses? Source: [1]
Overall: New (July 11), long enough (6109 characters), well sourced, neutral, and nothing significant on EarWig.
I am concerned by the lack of "as of 2014..." in the hook. Is there a way to reword the hook to be verifiable even at the present time? --- Coffeeandcrumbs 22:20, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
@Coffeeandcrumbs: QPQ is done. I couldn't tick it as complete previously because the nominator I was reviewing hadn't submitted their own QPQ. They've now done that.
As per Supreme Court legislation passed in 2010, it's no longer legal to sentence a child to a de-facto life sentence. If he was the longest serving juvenile inmate in 2014, he has to be the longest serving inmate today. The 'as of 2014' in the article was mostly there to signify he has the longest sentence of anyone still in prison from the time children were still being given life sentences. Also even if it wasn't against the law, sentencing a child to more than 241 years in this day and age would cause an outrage and mass media coverage; it would be easy to find if it had happened since then. I'll try to find a more recent source in the meantime but I think it's unnecessary. Your thoughts? Damien Linnane (talk) 01:30, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
This 2018 source [2] quotes the 2014 source as saying he was the longest serving inmate as of 2014. Granted they don't explicitly state he still is as of 2018, but it's certainly implied. Damien Linnane (talk) 01:34, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
That is a convincing interpretation. I have added that source to the article. This is good to go. --- Coffeeandcrumbs 02:25, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
New (July 11), long enough (6109 characters), well sourced, neutral, and nothing significant on EarWig.