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Former featured article candidateChristopher Reeve is a former featured article candidate. Please view the links under Article milestones below to see why the nomination was archived. For older candidates, please check the archive.
On this day... Article milestones
DateProcessResult
October 21, 2006Peer reviewReviewed
November 2, 2006Featured article candidateNot promoted
December 4, 2006Featured article candidateNot promoted
May 21, 2007Good article nomineeNot listed
On this day... Facts from this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on May 27, 2013, May 27, 2015, May 27, 2019, and May 27, 2020.
Current status: Former featured article candidate

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What about Eminem

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Would be nice to add Eminem references 97.130.78.9 (talk) 02:38, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I looked into this and there doesn't seem to be much to say. Eminem referred to Reeve in his songs primarily because his name was easy to rhyme with.[1] I haven't seen anything important enough to include. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 15:04, 17 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Richard Reeve

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Is it certain that Richard Reeve was a CEO?

Currently, wiki says: "For over 25 years his paternal grandfather, Colonel Richard Henry Reeve, was CEO of the Prudential Life Insurance Company." Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/books/f-d-reeve-poet-and-translator-dies-at-84.html

From the source: "Franklin D'Olier Reeve was born into a well-off family in Philadelphia on Sept. 18, 1928, to the former Anne D'Olier and Richard Henry Reeve, who was the chief executive of Prudential Financial for 25 years."

1. This sentence sounds suspiciously close to Still Me. Unfortunately, there is a typo in the book. Christopher about his father: "Franklin had come from a prominent Mainline Philadelphia family. His grandfather, Col. Richard d'Olier, was the CEO of the Prudential Insurance Company for more than twenty-five years." It should say Franklin D'Olier, not "Richard D'Olier".

I kinda think NYT got confused by "Richard". In that same obituary, they make a correction about another fact, so they're not flawless.

2. Richard Reeve was the husband of D'Olier's daughter Anne (D'Olier also had a son). I can't find any other source about D'Olier's family working for the Prudential. Besides, Anne divorced Richard and remarried.

3. A few other places online say that Richard Reeve was CEO, but it seems like they all use NYT/wikipedia as the source.

Do you think this line should be removed from the article? Or at last be replaced with "his great-grandfather was the CEO of the Prudential" because at least this one is supported by multiple reliable sources? CJC-DI (talk) 18:01, 9 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]