Template:Did you know nominations/Albert Franklin Banta
- 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 Fuebaey (talk) 19:52, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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Albert Franklin Banta
edit- ... that Albert Franklin Banta served as a member of the 12th Arizona Territorial Legislature under an assumed name?
ALT1:... that Arizona's Meteor Crater was briefly known as "Franklin's Hole" in honor of Charles A. Franklin?- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Tissa David
- Comment: The first hook is supported by the article indirectly. Sourced statements as to approximately when Banta began and ended using his assumed name are included in the article. His term in the territorial legislature and roughly two decades of other events clearly occurring between the start and stop dates.
Created by Allen3 (talk). Self nominated at 23:03, 1 December 2014 (UTC).
- I love ALT0 as a hook, but the way it's stated in the comment above it's over-the-line SYNTH. For all we know he used the assumed name in his hometown, but when in the capital he used his "real" name. We need something giving "served under assumed name" explicitly. EEng (talk) 20:30, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
- I have added two additional references showing him listed under the name "C. A. Franklin" during his service in the legislature, one on-line and one off-line. Most members of the territorial legislature were listed using their initials, so this is as close as we can get. Even the official publication of the session's acts and resolutions lists him using his initials (available here, there are no page numbers but you can find the members of the House by scrolling down about a dozen pages from the front cover). --Allen3 talk 22:27, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:13, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
This article is new enough and long enough. The original hook is now well sourced and I have struck ALT1 as I doubt the hole was named in his honour, more likely just given that name informally as a large hole he had found. He is not mentioned in the Meteor Crater article. This article is neutral and I detected no close paraphrasing. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:33, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
