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A fact from L. Zenobia Coleman appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 May 2021 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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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... that L. Zenobia Coleman (1898–1999), librarian for 36 years at
Tougaloo College, Mississippi, is credited with paving the way for Black librarians, and that the college's library is named for her? Source:
[1]
New article is 3,800 characters long and nominated on the same day.
No copyvios detected and duplication detector
[2][3] reveal no close paraphrasing issues (AGF scanned refs which can't go through Dup detector). Article is well-sourced. Hook is 196 characters long (under 200 character max.) and is interesting. Ref 2 (verifying the hook) is a reliable source. The promoter can omit the birth and death years from the hook. QPQ done. Looks good to go! —
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talk)
20:55, 1 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Drmies:, @
Bloom6132: I was going to promote this to a prep area, but the length and flow of the hook prevents it from being "punchy". I propose one of the ALTs below. Please indicate which you prefer, or if you want to stick with ALT 0:
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A fact from L. Zenobia Coleman appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 May 2021 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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.
... that L. Zenobia Coleman (1898–1999), librarian for 36 years at
Tougaloo College, Mississippi, is credited with paving the way for Black librarians, and that the college's library is named for her? Source:
[1]
New article is 3,800 characters long and nominated on the same day.
No copyvios detected and duplication detector
[2][3] reveal no close paraphrasing issues (AGF scanned refs which can't go through Dup detector). Article is well-sourced. Hook is 196 characters long (under 200 character max.) and is interesting. Ref 2 (verifying the hook) is a reliable source. The promoter can omit the birth and death years from the hook. QPQ done. Looks good to go! —
Bloom6132 (
talk)
20:55, 1 May 2021 (UTC)reply
@
Drmies:, @
Bloom6132: I was going to promote this to a prep area, but the length and flow of the hook prevents it from being "punchy". I propose one of the ALTs below. Please indicate which you prefer, or if you want to stick with ALT 0: