Template:Did you know nominations/Alexander Bielaski

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 TJMSmith (talk) 21:53, 25 March 2021 (UTC)

Alexander Bielaski

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Alexander Bielaski

• ... that Abraham Lincoln convinced his friend Alexander Bielaski (pictured) to join the Union Army, only for him to be killed at the Battle of Belmont? The Wytrwal JSTOR PDF and the Hughes book
  • ALT1:... that Alexander Bielaski (pictured) was friends with Abraham Lincoln, offered Mexican citizenship by Santa Anna, and the grandfather of a director of what became the FBI? Hughes 1991, the Wytrwal PDF, and the FBI source linked in the article

• Comment: Expanded from 2711 to 15kb bytes of readable prose per the prose checker tool, should be about 1,000 over the 5x expansion requirement

5x expanded by Hog Farm (talk). Self-nominated at 07:26, 13 March 2021 (UTC).

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tommy Turtle

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: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: ALT1 is much better on the "interesting" point, but it is a bit long-winded and seemingly links unrelated facts together - maybe picking one or two of these items might be better (the FBI director thing is certainly the most interesting bit). Also noting that the article is up for GA nomination. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 16:18, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

• How about:

• • • ALT2:... that Alexander Bielaski (pictured) was friends with Abraham Lincoln and the grandfather of a director of what became the FBI? Hughes 1991 and the FBI source linked in the article

• The open GA nomination will only affect DYK in the unlikely situation that 1000 bytes of readable prose gets removed from the article over the course of the review. I don't see that happening, but if it does, I will withdraw this. Pinging RandomCanadian. Hog Farm _Talk 20:07, 13 March 2021 (UTC)

• If the article passes GA, that counts as eligibility for DYK (Wikipedia:Did_you_know#Eligibility_criteria - 1.f). Anyway this suggestion is better, and although it might be better to wait for the GA to post a hook then, for the time being, Approved ALT2. Cheers RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 20:32, 13 March 2021 (UTC)