Talk:Carroll Best

A fact from Carroll Best appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 August 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that bluegrass musician Carroll Best is credited for developing a melodic three-finger banjo style that influenced Tony Trischka and Béla Fleck?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Carroll Best.

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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:02, 1 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that bluegrass musician Carroll Best is credited for developing a melodic three-finger banjo style that influenced Tony Trischka and Béla Fleck? Source: "HISTORIC ARTIST: Carroll Best; Banjo player; Haywood County". Blue Ridge National Heritage Area. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
- ALT1:... that bluegrass banjo player Carroll Best is a historic artist of the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area, and was given the North Carolina Heritage Award in 1994? Source: "HISTORIC ARTIST: Carroll Best; Banjo player; Haywood County". Blue Ridge National Heritage Area. Retrieved July 4, 2021.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ingrid Haubold

Created by 4meter4 (talk). Self-nominated at 14:57, 7 July 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

QPQ is done, article is good on all counts (sourcing, length, copyvio etc). Both hooks are cited but I think ALT0 is probably more interesting for most readers. Nice job! BuySomeApples (talk) 21:52, 31 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]