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A fact from Sean Cole appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 December 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that This American Life producer and Boston native Sean Cole spoke with an affected British accent from age 14 to 16?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sean Cole.

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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: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 02:00, 10 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... that This American Life producer, and Boston native, Sean Cole spoke with an affected British accent from the age of 14 until he was 16? Sean spoke with a British accent from the time he was 14 until he was 16.https://www.thisamericanlife.org/660/transcript
- ALT1:... that This American Life producer Sean Cole writes a poem for the couple at each wedding he officiates? https://current.org/2016/10/producer-sean-cole-relishes-the-beautiful-feeling-of-performing-weddings/
- ALT2:... that This American Life producer Sean Cole is an "Internet-ordained" clergyman with Universal Life Church and has performed at least 20 weddings for his friends? https://current.org/2016/10/producer-sean-cole-relishes-the-beautiful-feeling-of-performing-weddings/

Reviewed: Michelle Curran

Created by Esprit15d (talk). Self-nominated at 16:26, 10 November 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Note: The nominator has less than 5 DYK credits and so is not required to submit a QPQ yet. The QPQ that was submitted was not a full review. Yoninah (talk) 15:22, 23 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I began the review but ran into the issue that right now the entry does not have much independent secondary source coverage of Cole, necessary to ward off any concerns this entry may not meet WP:NPERSON. Are more sources available to be incorporated? This is the kind of entry I write most often and unfortunately it can happen that journalists are not themselves the subject of profiles written by others, leaving them ineligible for WP even if they are quite famous. But hopefully there’s more available? Innisfree987 (talk) 00:53, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Esprit15d, a ping to make sure you’d like to go forward with this DYK. I have added to the entry and I think it is within bounds now, but I’d like to have another DYK reviewer check my work. Just wanted to make sure you were still interested first. Thanks! Innisfree987 (talk) 17:07, 1 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Okay I was able to add and reference more in the entry from the Current source so it’s not so reliant on sources associated with Cole; I feel it’s within policy now. Length and newness at time of nomination both fine; have looked through all the sources and see no copyvio. Signing off on original hook. Innisfree987 (talk) 18:12, 9 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Photo

In trying to find more sources, I discovered this nice photo of Cole at his alma mater. Right now it doesn’t have the proper license and the first order of business is to get enough secondary sources to confirm the entry’s notability. But after that, I bet as an educational institution they might grant a CC license if asked. They seem very proud of his affiliation. Innisfree987 (talk) 01:51, 26 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

COI

Sean Cole, likely @Ittycity2, has likely significantly edited this Wikipedia article. See: a Reddit post claiming to be him that has mentioned doing so Mrfoogles (talk) 23:36, 3 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Might want to take this here: Wikipedia:Conflict of interest/Noticeboard He shouldn’t be editing his own page, even if it’s fairly harmless. Afheather (talk) 00:18, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]