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Did you know... that civil rights activist Bob Zellner was arrested at least 25 times and severely beaten on several occasions for his activism?
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Cited: - ALT0 yes. In relation to ALT1 and the "arrested at least 18 times" bit, the in-line source is to a talk by Zellner and
Barry Alexander Brown with the latter saying "Bob went to jail 18 times, and he’s got five times as many stories about when he didn’t go to jail". I'm not sure that's the best source. On a quick search I found
this article which I think would do the trick but I'm wondering if any better/additional sources could be found.
Interesting:
QPQ: Done.
Overall: Article is new enough, long enough and meets other policy requirements (very interesting subject!). Have checked Earwig and no concerns there. Well-sourced. I prefer ALT1 (subject to minor sourcing point noted above) (and ALT0 could potentially be reworked to be a bit more 'hooky', as it's not immediately clear why him being the first white secretary is of interest to a reader not familiar with the SNCC). QPQ done. Just needs at least one reliable source cited in-line to support the "at least 18 arrests" bit of ALT1. Cheers,
Chocmilk03 (
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01:30, 11 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Found one source, but it mentions 25 arrests by summer of 1963. I edited the article accordingly, and thus propose:
ALT2 ... that civil rights activist Bob Zellner was arrested at least 25 times and severely beaten on several occasions for his activism?
Great work! And the relevant page of the source is available on Google Books which is helpful. I briefly considered whether you could make it "at least 26 arrests" since we know he was also arrested in 2013 but 25 is a nice round number and it's "at least" so I reckon let's leave as is. ALT2 good to go. :) Thanks,
Chocmilk03 (
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07:54, 21 September 2021 (UTC)reply
A fact from Bob Zellner appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 September 2021 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that civil rights activist Bob Zellner was arrested at least 25 times and severely beaten on several occasions for his activism?
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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
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Cited: - ALT0 yes. In relation to ALT1 and the "arrested at least 18 times" bit, the in-line source is to a talk by Zellner and
Barry Alexander Brown with the latter saying "Bob went to jail 18 times, and he’s got five times as many stories about when he didn’t go to jail". I'm not sure that's the best source. On a quick search I found
this article which I think would do the trick but I'm wondering if any better/additional sources could be found.
Interesting:
QPQ: Done.
Overall: Article is new enough, long enough and meets other policy requirements (very interesting subject!). Have checked Earwig and no concerns there. Well-sourced. I prefer ALT1 (subject to minor sourcing point noted above) (and ALT0 could potentially be reworked to be a bit more 'hooky', as it's not immediately clear why him being the first white secretary is of interest to a reader not familiar with the SNCC). QPQ done. Just needs at least one reliable source cited in-line to support the "at least 18 arrests" bit of ALT1. Cheers,
Chocmilk03 (
talk)
01:30, 11 September 2021 (UTC)reply
Found one source, but it mentions 25 arrests by summer of 1963. I edited the article accordingly, and thus propose:
ALT2 ... that civil rights activist Bob Zellner was arrested at least 25 times and severely beaten on several occasions for his activism?
Great work! And the relevant page of the source is available on Google Books which is helpful. I briefly considered whether you could make it "at least 26 arrests" since we know he was also arrested in 2013 but 25 is a nice round number and it's "at least" so I reckon let's leave as is. ALT2 good to go. :) Thanks,
Chocmilk03 (
talk)
07:54, 21 September 2021 (UTC)reply