Template:Did you know nominations/William Kuykendall
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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 15:47, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
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William Kuykendall
- ... that Oregon state senator William Kuykendall was a physician who founded the first hospital in Eugene, Oregon? Source: The Kuykendall Collection in the Oregon Historical Society Research Library says in the second paragraph of the Biographical Note section: "William K. Kuykendall, a physician … was elected to the Oregon State Senate where he served for nine years … he founded the first hospital in Eugene …"
Created by Orygun (talk). Self-nominated at 08:31, 11 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/William Kuykendall; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
The article is looking nice; it's newly created and long enough. No issues in prose and Earwig gives no copyvio. Hook is interesting and cited, and the source confirms the fact. QPQ done. Styyx (talk) 19:38, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
- @Styyx and Orygun: Probably need to change the article and hook, because the newspaper source which is cited in the article says he was a co-founder. Bruxton (talk) 03:11, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
- Bruxton: The obituary, I used for the in-line citation says in the second paragraph, “He was organizer of the first hospital in Eugene.” The text you cite is a quote from an unnamed associate that could have been badly phased or miss-quoted. That quote is the only place I’ve found that indicated there might have been others involved in the institution’s founding. I have been told to only include one in-line source so I picked one in which I thought the text on the founding would be easy to find. I probably should have used the Oregon Historical Society Archive West source I provided above since it is clear about Kuykendall “founding” the hospital. However, it is buried in the text where it’s hard to find. I can replace the original in-line source with this Archive West source or add it as a second in-line source if you think it would clarify things. Here are a couple more examples that point to Kuykendall as founder. The Gaston-Himes source says Kuykendall “laid the foundation for the institution, thus the Eugene hospital had it beginning.” Also, Clark’s Willamette Valley History source says Kuykendall “established the Eugene Hospital.” Bottom line … I believe the article text and hook are correct.--Orygun (talk) 08:38, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
- @Styyx and Orygun: Probably need to change the article and hook, because the newspaper source which is cited in the article says he was a co-founder. Bruxton (talk) 03:11, 5 March 2024 (UTC)