Template:Did you know nominations/Samuel Wear


 * 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 Allen3 talk 10:11, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Insufficient progress toward resolving outstanding issues

Samuel Wear

 * ... that early frontiersman Samuel Wear helped write the Tennessee State Constitution at his residence, which was called Wears Fort?
 * ALT1:... that Samuel Wear, a co-founder of The Lost State of Franklin, also helped write the Tennessee State Constitution almost two decades later?
 * ALT1a:... that Samuel Wear, a co-founder of The Lost State of Franklin, also helped write the Tennessee State Constitution?
 * ALT2:... that the first county clerk of Sevier County under the State of Franklin, Samuel Wear, kept the position for 32 years (through multiple governmental changes)?
 * ALT3 ... that the first county clerk of Sevier County of the "Lost State of Franklin", Samuel Wear, held the position through multiple governmental changes up to, and including, Tennessee?


 * Reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Toluid Civil War
 * Comment: New article stub by User:Jwear21, I took it, improved and expanded it. ~User:GenQuest

Created/expanded by Jwear21 (talk), GenQuest (talk). Nominated by GenQuest (talk) at 22:28, 20 March 2014 (UTC).
 * Symbol possible vote.svg New enough, big enough (4100+ characters), and inline citations on every paragraph, except lead paragraph. The claim in the lead paragraph, that Wear was a co-founder of the State of Franklin, is not found in the main article text, so it needs a citation. AGF offline sources. One external link was broken, but attached to a statement supported by another citation, so I commented it out. No plagiarism detected.
 * hook 1: Symbol possible vote.svg This claim does not have a citation attached to it.
 * comment: this is cited in the body of article, but not in the lead (per wp:lede). I can add one if necessary.   GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 01:55, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
 * alt 1: Symbol possible vote.svg This claim is in the lead paragraph, but no citation is given.
 * comment: this is cited in the body of article, but not in the lead (per wp:lede). I can add one if necessary.   GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 01:55, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
 * alt 2: Symbol question.svg The claim has a citation, but I do not see anything in it about holding the position for 32 years.
 * comment: Withdrawn due to loss of the reference link (now a ); see the new, re-worded ALT3.  GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 01:55, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Cmprince (talk) 03:05, 8 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol possible vote.svg GenQuest, sourcing issues do remain with the hooks as follows:
 * Original hook: the article does not say that Wears Fort (one source says "Wear's Fort") was his residence, simply that he established a stockade by that name in 1782. It does say the constitution was drafted there, but this comes from FN3's statement that he wrote it at his residence. If this hook is to be used, then the article needs to be brought more in line with the sourcing, and the sourcing needs to be accurately attributed. (Right now, I'd drop the "which was called 'Wears Fort' " part of the hook to be safe, along with a recasting of the sentence in question.)
 * ALT1: the "co-founder" of Franklin is sourced to the monument mentioned in "Later life and death", but it really ought to be made explicit (and sourced) in the "Frontier life" section, to make the history involving him more understandable. Further, this hook's "almost two decades later" is not sourced: indeed, it is incorrect, since Franklin was established in 1784 according to its Wikipedia article, and Tennessee became a state in 1796. (Note: the committee of five in the "Constitutional delegate" section does not appear to be the constitutional drafting committee but a territory government committee asked to draft a declaration of war against the native Americans. Please recheck the FN1 source in the last paragraph of page 19.)
 * ALT3: while the "Lesser Franklin" source (FN2) does establish that Wear was the first county clerk of Sevier County, the "Upland" source (FN3) does not establish, so far as I can tell, that he was county clerk through the founding of Tennessee. What it says is that he "served in all governments", but not what the positions were (except for his Franklin posts); FN1 says he "served many years as Clerk of Sevier County Court"; again, not sufficient to support the hook's claim.
 * The simplest suggestion would be to drop the "almost two decades later" from ALT1. However, the article needs to be gone over so it adheres more closely to the main sources. I'm a little leery about the Jefferson quote, because the Upland source is apparently paraphrasing him but it looks like a direct quote of Jefferson (rather than Upland) in the article. I'm also very puzzled by the use of FN7 as a source, as that page seems only useful to establish that Wear was a delegate to the constitutional convention, and hence should only be used in the first sentence of the section, perhaps after the second comma (should it by "by Sevier" or "from Sevier"?). BlueMoonset (talk) 03:19, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Added 1a above; will also attempt to further clarify this coming week as my work schedule allows. Thanks all for your time.  GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 16:41, 4 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol delete vote.svg GenQuest, it has been over three weeks without a single edit to the article, despite plenty of editing activity by you elsewhere on Wikipedia. That's just too long. Given the severity of the problems I noted above, I'm regretfully closing this nomination as unsuccessful. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:50, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks anyway. GenQuest  "Talk to Me" 12:16, 28 May 2014 (UTC)