Talk:Lincoln Fitzgerald

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The link to the Missouri gambling site is now out of date and needs to be updated.
Japan section reads as though it was written by the gambling industry - quotes of 160% returns are 'citation needed'.

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A fact from Lincoln Fitzgerald appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 December 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Lincoln Fitzgerald survived a 1949 murder attempt and went on to run three Nevada casinos?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lincoln Fitzgerald.

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Did you know nomination

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 Lightburst talk 15:11, 30 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in the early 1940s Lincoln Fitzgerald was associated with Detroit's Purple Gang but in 1949 he moved to Nevada and operated three casinos? Source: While in Detroit Lincoln Fitzgerald was a gambler and he became associated with the Purple Gang and At the time of his death he was operating three casinos, Fitzgeralds Casino & Hotel (Reno) the Nevada Club (Reno) and the Nevada Lodge of Lake Tahoe.
- ALT1: ... that Lincoln Fitzgerald survived a 1949 assassination attempt and went on to run three Nevada casinos? Source: assassination attempt and At the time of his death he was operating three casinos, Fitzgeralds Casino & Hotel (Reno) the Nevada Club (Reno) and the Nevada Lodge of Lake Tahoe.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/KTRV-TV
- Comment: Open to other hooks

Moved to mainspace by Bruxton (talk). Self-nominated at 15:52, 4 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Lincoln Fitzgerald; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Article is long enough and new enough. No problems with copyright. Images are appropriately licensed (one is fair use).
Some of the sources are not WP:RS due to WP:UGC: Ancestry, BillionGraves; these should be replaced with higher-quality sources. RoySmith (talk) 03:22, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review RoySmith. I have removed the two references and accompanying citations. I have replaced citations in the article. Bruxton (talk) 15:16, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

ALT1 is approved. The ALT0 hook seems excessively verbose and oddly worded; "but" should separate two ideas which are in opposition which isn't the case here. RoySmith (talk) 16:05, 27 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Description of marriage

I hope no one will take this personally, but I find the sentence "Fitzgerald was married to Meta" a bit clunky. Can we at least find out the wedding date, so we can write something like "Fitzgerald married Meta Konarske on Septober 37, 2525"? It's still pretty spare but it doesn't land with such a thud. --Trovatore (talk) 22:34, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]