Talk:A Tribute for the Negro

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A fact from A Tribute for the Negro appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 March 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in his review of A Tribute for the Negro by Wilson Armistead, Frederick Douglass criticised how it included an image of him that was edited to give him a smile?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/A Tribute for the Negro.

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Further sources

I published the article using only writers of colour, but there are a number of other sources that may also be useful:

John Wylie Griffith (Added to article)
Philip Curtin (repeats Manisha and Adi material)
Bridget Bennett (repeats commentary on Douglass review of the book)
george Shepperson (added to article)
Odilie Georg (I can't access it, it turns out)
Race Capet ? (I can't access it, it turns out)
Laura K Nelson (aadded to article)
Dickson D Bruce Jr (footnote, and very passing at that)
Mathew Clavin (I can't access it, it turns out)
Marcus Wood (my views for this via google books have run out)
Marie Cordie-Levy (repeats the criticism by Douglass of the portrait of him)
Richard Maguire (footnote in passing)

Happy editing Lajmmoore (talk) 20:36, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Update - bearing in mind the DYK review, I've assessed these sources and some of them repeat infomation that is already cited by black authors. These are noted using ( ... ) - the three with previously unreferenced knowledge I will add in now Lajmmoore (talk) 19:24, 10 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

added three new (white) sources to article Lajmmoore (talk) 07:47, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by BorgQueen (talk) 14:55, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Frontispiece of A Tribute for the Negro

... that in his review of A Tribute for the Negro (frontispiece pictured) by Wilson Armistead, Frederick Douglass criticised how it included an image of him that was edited to give him a smile? Source: "Douglass, who was critical of the superimposed smile ..." [1]
- ALT1: ... that British abolitionist Wilson Armistead dedicated his book A Tribute for the Negro (frontispiece pictured) to the American anti-slavery campaigners Frederick Douglass, James Pennington and Alexander Crummell? Source: [2]
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Yinka Ilori

Created by Lajmmoore (talk). Self-nominated at 11:48, 24 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/A Tribute for the Negro; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral: - see comment below
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Hi there @Lajmmoore: the article looks good; it is new and long enough, there are no problems with copyvios (Earwig's only throws up the name), QPQ is done, sourcing is good and hook is cited. Hookwise, I much prefer ALT0; it seems a lot more interesting. On the image side of things, it is free to use (PD) and is clear at 120px. However, I am a bit concerned about your comment on the talk page. I feel that not using the sources you have put on the talk page could be seen as not covering all the major viewpoints. This is my only concern; could you please address this? Thanks, Schminnte (talk • contribs) 16:29, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Schminnte, thanks very much for the review - I'll be delayed in addressing your concerns as I have a lot of off-wiki deadlines going into early next week. I'll take a proper look as soon as I can Lajmmoore (talk) 06:49, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Schminnte - it took me a little longer than I anticipated to work on this, but I've gone through the sources from white authors, and added three into the article that convey new infomation that isn't published elsewhere. There were a couple that I couldn't access ultimately, which I've commented about on the talk page, so hopefully another editor will come along and incorporate those. Please me know if there's anything additional to add. Lajmmoore (talk) 07:50, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that Lajmmoore: I think we are good to go now. Schminnte (talk • contribs) 07:57, 11 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]