Template:Did you know nominations/Murder of Mary Theresa Simpson

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 AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:46, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

Murder of Mary Theresa Simpson

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• ... that it took law enforcement 61 years to identify the killer of Mary Theresa Simpson? Source: https://www.fingerlakesdailynews.com/regional-state-congressional/elmira-police-close-61-year-old-cold-homicide-case/
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bob Broughton
  • Comment: I had 5 previous dyk nominations on another account, and 1 on this one. I need a QPQ after all.

Created by The Knowledge Pirate (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

The Knowledge Pirate (talk) 03:13, 15 February 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this once I come home from school. ミラP@Miraclepine 17:43, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

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: Moved to mainspace four days ago and prose size 3718 B. Outside of minor fixes, nothing worth noting. ミラP@Miraclepine 22:01, 18 February 2026 (UTC)