Talk:Greg MacLeod

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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Narutolovehinata5 talk 10:07, 23 May 2025 (UTC)

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Greg MacLeod, Canadian priest

• ... that CTV News was duped into reporting that Canadian priest Greg MacLeod (pictured) was related to Donald Trump? Source: CTV News: "History students from Cape Breton University discovered that Greg MacLeod -- a retired business professor -- is distant cousins with the reality TV star- and businessman-turned-politician." ... "Correction: CTV News has learned that this was an April Fool’s Day prank. We regret the error."
  • ALT1: ... that CTV News erroneously reported that a Canadian priest was related to Donald Trump? Source: Same as above
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Created by MediaKyle (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

MediaKyle (talk) 01:44, 8 May 2025 (UTC).

• No QPQ needed, article looks to overall be in good shape. No copyvio problems. However, the claims in the hooks themselves seem to be a violation of WP:PRIMARY, as they are simply citing the original article that reported the claim and that contains a brief retraction. Are there any secondary sources about this that could be used instead? ~Darth Stabro^{Talk • Contribs} 15:21, 8 May 2025 (UTC)
  • Thank you for reviewing. I don't believe the incident was otherwise reported on, unfortunately. I didn't consider that this might be an issue, I just thought it was humorous when I pulled it up and it seemed like the good choice for DYK. Unfortunately I don't think there's anything else in the article really worth mentioning in a hook so maybe we'll leave this for another time. Cheers, MediaKyle (talk) 15:26, 8 May 2025 (UTC)