Template:Did you know nominations/Alexander Gibson (industrialist)


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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 12:23, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Alexander Gibson (industrialist)

 * ... that the Canadian industrialist Alexander "Boss" Gibson named his company town after his wife and daughter?
 * ALT1:... that the Canadian industrialist Alexander "Boss" Gibson started out working as a labourer in a sawmill?
 * Reviewed: Christian Socialism in Utah

5x expanded by HazelAB (talk). Self nominated at 17:08, 4 February 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol possible vote.svg New enough, long enough, well referenced, neutral. The original hook is cited to a RS and is far more interesting than the second, IMO, so I have struck ALT1 (many successful people begin their careers in vastly different and less glamorous roles than they end up). My only concern here is that there is some close paraphrasing in places from the Canadian Bio source – see here for the matches. Phrases such as "In 1890 the company was reorganized under the name Canada Eastern Railway Company" (source: the company was reorganized as the Canada Eastern Railway Company in 1890) and "several houses were burned and a contaminated well was filled in" (source: several houses were burned and a contaminated well filled in) should be reworded so they are less similar to the source. 97198 (talk) 09:56, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review. I've rewritten the two sections you mentioned, and made two other wording changes. I went over the Earwig report and it looks to me as though the remaining matches are proper names or otherwise unobjectionable, but let me know if there's anything else I need to fix. HazelAB (talk) 13:45, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thanks, Hazel – I agree with you that Earwig's remaining "matches" are nothing to be concerned about. All good. 97198 (talk) 02:59, 17 February 2015 (UTC)