Template:Did you know nominations/B. Max Mehl

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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 17:13, 10 July 2021 (UTC)

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B. Max Mehl

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B. Max Mehl in 1950
B. Max Mehl in 1950
  • ... that B. Max Mehl (pictured), a coin dealer in Texas who made the hobby popular, advertized his "Mehl-ing list" in the 1920s? Source: "[1] for list, several for the others

5x expanded by Wehwalt (talk). Nominated by Gerda Arendt (talk) at 13:28, 7 July 2021 (UTC).

ALT1 perhaps ...... that B. Max Mehl (pictured), a Texas coin dealer who made the hobby popular, has been called "the P. T. Barnum of numismatics"?--Wehwalt (talk) 15:14, 7 July 2021 (UTC)
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Eligibility
  • Expanded 5X by Wehwalt as of July 3, 2021
  • 19903 characters (3382 words) "readable prose size"
Sourcing
  • Every paragraph is sourced, meeting requirements
Hook
  • Both original and ALT1 are stated in the article and sourced
  • If you wanted to go for a real laugh, it's pretty funny about "The February 1904 advertisement offered The Hub Coin Book for sale for $.25, although in an unfortunate misspelling, the "k" in Book was rendered as a "b"."
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Copyvio check
  • "In 1939, with a staff of fifty, Mehl boasted that he employed more people than all other U.S. coin dealers combined." in the article.
  • Handbook of Texas source has this wording, "In 1939, with a staff of fifty, he boasted that he employed more people than all other American coin dealers combined."
Changed to "In 1939, Mehl employed 50 people, and boasted that he had more people on his payroll than all other U.S. coin dealers combined.
  • Everything else flagged by Earwig's Copyvio Detector are either names/companies or common phrases that are not copyvios.
  • See note on copyvio wording. — Maile (talk) 17:25, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Issue resolved. This nomination passes. — Maile (talk) 20:31, 8 July 2021 (UTC)