Template:Did you know nominations/Campaign to End the Death Penalty

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Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Created/expanded by Bryanw3 (talk). Self nom at 07:15, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
 * ... that the Campaign to End the Death Penalty sponsored a speech at DePaul University by former Illinois Governor George Ryan, who imposed a moratorium on executions in Illinois?

There are major issues that make this nom pretty much unsalvageable.
 * Regarding the article:
 * This is 678 characters short of a 5x expansion.
 * The article suffers from a lot of close paraphrasing.
 * The citations are almost exclusively from the CEDP's web site (without citing the specific pages they are cited to).
 * The newspaper sources all either 1) have incidental mentions of CEDP or 2) fail to even mention CEDP and simply speak of a death penalty case or of the death penalty in generalities.
 * The article suffers from neutrality issues, likely due to the close paraphrasing of the CEDP's web site.
 * Regarding the hook:
 * The hook fails the interest factor because it boils down to "...that an organization sponsored a speech by a person it agreed with?"
 * A minor quibble that in and of itself would not kill the nom is that Governor Ryan had already been convicted of bribery and corruption and was scheduled to go to prison shortly after the speech.
 * Sorry, this nom has too many issues, most seriously the close paraphrasing, the lack of a 5x expansion, and the lack of neutrality. (This is aside from the questionable notability of the group in question.) OCNative (talk) 11:51, 23 October 2011 (UTC)