Talk:Herman Benson

This article is rated B-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Biography

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography

Organized Labour Mid‑importance

	Organized Labour portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Organized Labour, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of articles related to Organized Labour on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Organized LabourWikipedia:WikiProject Organized LabourTemplate:WikiProject Organized Labourorganized labour
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.

United States History Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the history of the United States on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.United States HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject United States HistoryTemplate:WikiProject United States HistoryUnited States History

Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

WikiProject United States History To-do:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Cleanup : United States History articles needing attention
Infobox : United States History articles needing infoboxes
Stubs : Stub-Class United States History articles, Category:United States history stubs
Other :
- Place either of the following WikiProject banners on United States History-related articles and assess:
  - {{WikiProject United States History|class=|importance=}}
  - {{WikiProject United States|class=|importance=|UShistory=Yes|UShistory-importance=}}

New York (state) Low‑importance

	New York (state) portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject New York (state), a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of New York on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New York (state)Wikipedia:WikiProject New York (state)Template:WikiProject New York (state)New York (state)
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

A fact from Herman Benson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 May 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that before his 100th birthday, Herman Benson wrote his own obituary claiming that his "last, dying words" were a plea for generous donations to the Association for Union Democracy?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Herman Benson.

Wikipedia

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 Lightburst (talk) 15:32, 3 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

( Comment or view )

( Article history links:

)

... that Herman Benson started the Association for Union Democracy to fight corruption and racketeering within unions?

ALT1: ... that before his 100th birthday, Herman Benson wrote his own obituary claiming that his "last, dying words" were a plea for generous donations to the Association for Union Democracy?

ALT2: ... that Herman Benson started the Association for Union Democracy to fight corruption and racketeering, after several high-profile murders?

- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/House of Frankenstein (film), Template:Did you know nominations/Beep line
- Comment: Two (2) QPQs since it's a double hook; the reviewer of this double hook also receives 2 QPQ credits. Happy to suggest more ALT hooks if needed. Association for Union Democracy was expanded 5x since 8 April 2023 (per DYKcheck).

Created by Cielquiparle (talk) and Namiba (talk). Nominated by Cielquiparle (talk) at 16:08, 14 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Herman Benson; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page. Both articles:[reply]

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: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Cielquiparle and Namiba: Nice work on these two articles. I like ALT1 best, but all three hooks are good to go. Both articles are new and long enough at the time of nomination, and are both neutral and free of plagiarism; however, Association for Union Democracy#Founders and staff does not seem to have any inline sources. Once this is fixed, I can approve this nomination. Epicgenius (talk) 15:15, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Epicgenius: Thanks for reviewing. I've added refs for the "Notable people" section. (I also like ALT1 best.) Cielquiparle (talk) 16:06, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, and thanks for the quick response.

Looks good to go now. Epicgenius (talk) 16:15, 24 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]