Template:Did you know nominations/Ricardo Morales (FBI informant)
- 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 Yoninah (talk) 16:52, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
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Ricardo Morales (intelligence agent)
- ... that FBI informant Ricardo Morales testified against Cuban militant Orlando Bosch in the United States in 1968, and lived in the same hotel as Bosch in Venezuela in 1976?
- ALT1: ... that FBI informant Ricardo Morales, who testified against Cuban militant Orlando Bosch in 1968, shared a hotel with Bosch in 1976?
- Reviewed: John Peele Clapham
- Comment: Hook suggestions welcome
Moved to mainspace by Vanamonde93 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:44, 24 August 2020 (UTC).
This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline and either could be used, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 17:54, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
Hi, I came by to promote ALT1, but am having trouble finding the hook fact in the Atlantic article; could you point it out to me? Also, could you add more of his notability to the lead? Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 13:37, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
- @Yoninah: The Alantic article says "In return, [Bosch] was given [...] a suite at the chic Anauco Hilton, where García and his deputy, Ricardo “El Mono” Morales, also had apartments. Morales, a Cuban exile like his boss, [...] even testified against Bosch in the Polish ship case of 1968". The Miami News source discusses the trial in more detail, and says "It was after a 57-millimeter cannon shell hit the Polish freighter Polancia here last Sept. 16, that the [defendents, including Bosch] were arrested by FBI agents", and "During the seven-day trial which ended Nov. 15, the government produced a paid informer named Ricardo Morales Navarette, 29, who infiltrated Bosch's group with tape recorders tied to his body and kept the FBI informed of its activities." I really don't know what else to add about notability; his activities as an informant were enough to land him in the papers regularly, and as such he meets GNG. I don't want to add an isolated statement about his most notable activities because withouth the context provided in the body it would create neutrality problems. Vanamonde (Talk) 14:56, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
- @Vanamonde93: I just felt that the lead doesn't properly summarize the main points of the article. But thus is the way of DYK start-class articles. Thank you, I found the hook fact in the source. Restoring tick per Cwmhiraeth's review. Yoninah (talk) 16:49, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
