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A fact from William Rounseville Alger appeared on Wikipedia's
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Did you know... that William Rounseville Alger's(pictured) 1857
Fourth of July speech was so controversial that the city of Boston refused to print it for seven years?
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Overall: Article is new enough, long enough and well sourced. The hook is cited and interesting. qpq is not needed since the nominator only has 1 dyk credit. This one looks ready to go!
BuySomeApples (
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Controversy
Why was his speech controversial? What did he say that people found objectionable?
FloridaArmy (
talk) 03:42, 27 December 2021 (UTC)reply
The source just says: it "created a sensation by its bold treatment of the slavery question... [they printed it] seven years later, when the prophecies of the orator had been fulfilled". So apparently he made some predictions regarding slavery that came true. Given that he was an abolitionist it's not hard to guess what side of "the slavery question" he was on, but if you want to read the speech it's linked in his published works.
Shuri42 (
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A fact from William Rounseville Alger appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 December 2021 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that William Rounseville Alger's(pictured) 1857
Fourth of July speech was so controversial that the city of Boston refused to print it for seven years?
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.
Overall: Article is new enough, long enough and well sourced. The hook is cited and interesting. qpq is not needed since the nominator only has 1 dyk credit. This one looks ready to go!
BuySomeApples (
talk) 19:43, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
To
T:DYK/P6reply
Controversy
Why was his speech controversial? What did he say that people found objectionable?
FloridaArmy (
talk) 03:42, 27 December 2021 (UTC)reply
The source just says: it "created a sensation by its bold treatment of the slavery question... [they printed it] seven years later, when the prophecies of the orator had been fulfilled". So apparently he made some predictions regarding slavery that came true. Given that he was an abolitionist it's not hard to guess what side of "the slavery question" he was on, but if you want to read the speech it's linked in his published works.
Shuri42 (
talk) 17:22, 27 December 2021 (UTC)reply