Template:Did you know nominations/William S. White

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The result was: promoted by Gatoclass (talk) 21:41, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

William S. White

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... that William S. White took a two month break from the New York Times to write the book that won the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography? Source: p. 651
- ALT1:... that William S. White received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography and Presidential Medal of Freedom while working in journalism for almost five full decades? Source: p. 164 and 165

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Debut (Jackie Evancho album)
Comment: He started with the Associated Press in 1926 and retired in 1973, therefore not fully five decades.

Moved to mainspace by MrLinkinPark333 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:15, 16 October 2019 (UTC).

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:

Good to go, but I did make some stylistic changes to the article. I greatly prefer ALT0 for its brevity (though it could be made shorter by piping down to "Pulitzer Prize" and omitting the year), as ALT1 is a bit too broad. Sounder Bruce 06:52, 17 October 2019 (UTC)