Talk:Edward Beard

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A fact from Edward Beard appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 November 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Edward Beard won reelection to the United States House of Representatives despite not winning his party's endorsement?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2025/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Edward Beard.

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Latest comment: 5 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Could someone who knows how to do these things add a (link to a) disambiguation page? There's an Ed Beard or two out there, at least some of whom are Edwards. 99.151.41.113 (talk) 16:53, 22 November 2009 (UTC)Reply

Took a while, but

Done. Wylie pedia @ 17:21, 13 January 2021 (UTC)Reply

Did you know nomination

Latest comment: 9 months ago4 comments3 people in discussion

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. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by JuniperChill talk 11:25, 21 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

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... that Edward Beard won reelection to the United States House of Representatives despite not winning his party's endorsement?

Source: "Congressman in R.I. denied endorsement". Daily Hampshire Gazette. June 11, 1976. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.
Page 1165 of Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections (2001)

- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona and Template:Did you know nominations/Rag paper
- Comment: Note: Article is still being expanded and is currently around 2,500 characters below expansion. It should be above that by the end of today. (Article is now long enough)

5x expanded by Jon698 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 104 past nominations.

Jon698 (talk) 15:06, 30 October 2025 (UTC).Reply

Will review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:16, 31 October 2025 (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:

Looks good. Nice work. BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:33, 31 October 2025 (UTC)Reply