Template:Did you know nominations/Roy Applequist

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: rejected by reviewer, closed by Narutolovehinata5 talk 10:53, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

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Roy Applequist

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  • ... that Roy Applequist worked in his father's farm equipment business before founding his own? Source: "Roy Applequist". Kansas Business Hall of Fame. 2010. Retrieved 2024-07-28.
Created by Bsoyka (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 17 past nominations.

Bsoyka (t • c • g) 16:56, 28 July 2024 (UTC).

  • alt1 is rejected for being unintersting (a lot of people on the list, and someone who doesn't know about it would not care). original hook is . ltbdl☃ (talk) 06:05, 24 August 2024 (UTC)
    ltbdl, Could you explain how the original hook is interesting per WP:DYKINT? I would have assumed that a person starting a farm equipment business would have prior experience in the farm equipment industry. (The lack of such a experience would be a interesting hook) Sohom (talk) 03:09, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
    ok, i'm starting to have my doubts. maybe an alt about how he founded two farm equipment companies? ltbdl☃ (talk) 14:53, 25 August 2024 (UTC)
    Maybe something like:
    ALT 2: ... that Roy Applequist received the No-Till Innovator Award for working on a new kind of seed drill?
    per [1] -- Sohom (talk) 04:23, 26 August 2024 (UTC)
    also not very interesting... ltbdl☃ (talk) 17:40, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
  • @Bsoyka and ltbdl: I'm not sure the article should be primarily based on Applequist Manufacturng and the Kansas Business Hall of Fame, the latter of which doesn't seem to meet the standard definition of an RS. Can other sources be found? If not, I'm not sure the article passes WP:GNG. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 08:01, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
@Bsoyka: has not edited in over four weeks. I propose that we close this unless the issues are addressed posthaste.--Launchballer 09:59, 20 September 2024 (UTC)