Template:Did you know nominations/Walter M. D. Kern
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:24, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
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Walter M. D. Kern[edit]
- ... that, while pushing for the repeal of New Jersey's obscenity laws, Assemblyman Walter Kern argued that "adults should be able to purchase whatever their perverted hearts desire"? Source: "Arguing for elimination of laws against obscenity, Assemblyman Walter M.D. Kern Jr., Republican of Ridgewood, said,' Adults should be able to purchase whatever their perverted hearts desire.'"
- Reviewed: Blueford v. Arkansas
Created by Alansohn (talk). Self-nominated at 04:25, 23 January 2018 (UTC).
On it.
New enough; long enough [~3.4k elig. chars.]; BLP but well-sourced, incl. the hook; QPQ done; Earwig finds no copyvio; the numerous and long quotes in the cites seem utterly needless and unpleasant (not least because all of the sources are online and easily accessed by the curious), but I don't know of a policy against them and it doesn't affect DYK eligibility in any case; I think that the extra links will just drain clicks and you should remove them, but it's your choice; and finally I think it's worth noting that this guy was (R), but that's your choice as well. The hook here doesn't need his middle initials, but the page itself should have the full names and not just initials. He seems most well-known to Google for proposed legislation about infant organ donations, but that's unmentioned in your article; the page is also probably at the wrong place since his COMMON ENGLISH name will lack the middle initials. He was disbarred and lost his election a long time ago but the article doesn't describe him as dead or give any details on what he's done since. In the meantime, all that said, it's still G2G here. — LlywelynII 07:09, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
- LlywelynII, I want to thank you for your review and all of your constructive comments. There's something fascinating about his two middle initials, which seem to be used regularly in contemporaneous references to him as his common name. Despite rather persistent efforts, I have not found an obituary for him (I have found one for his father that would indicate that his son predeceased him) nor have I located what the two initials stand for. It seems that the circumstances of his disbarment and subsequent departure from legislative office put him below the radar. The article is a work in progress and I hope that I -- together with other editors who see this article via DYK -- will continue to improve and expand the article. Alansohn (talk) 16:43, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
- You're very welcome and thank you for the new article. Yeah, if you've been looking for those initials and can't find anything online, there's not much else to ask you to do on that score; I tried well beyond the second page of Google results; and we might just need to wait until someone in his family notices the page. — LlywelynII 23:47, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
