Template:Did you know nominations/Clarence Elkins

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The result was: rejected by — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:44, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
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Clarence Elkins[edit]

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... that Clarence Elkins and his wife solved the crime he was wrongfully convicted of through their own investigative work?

Reviewed: I have <5 DYK credits and am exempt from review requirement
Comment: >2 fold expansion of BLP that was almost completely unsourced

2x expanded and sourced (BLP) by Bali88 (talk). Self nominated at 03:53, 30 June 2014 (UTC).

Not sure this counts as an unsourced BLP prior to expansion, since despite having reference-related cleanup tags the article had six inline references and three external links listed. From a quick look at the DYK rules I was unable to find a hard-and-fast rule about what constitutes an unsourced BLP, though, so maybe someone else will weigh in about whether this is eligible. 97198 (talk) 14:18, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Yeah, I wasn't really sure about that. However, the large body of the biography was unsourced and there were just a few sources regarding his charity work. I figured that having the biography part of it completely unsourced was close enough to being unsourced. Bali88 (talk) 14:33, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Its a nice article, but it wasnt too bad on 1 June when it had 6 in line references. The BLP type entry into DYK is intended for BLP articles that have no references at all. This article would need to grow by a factor of five or become a GA to be a DYK nomination. Sorry. Thanks. Victuallers (talk) 16:21, 5 July 2014 (UTC)