Talk:Amanda Jones (librarian)

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A fact from Amanda Jones (librarian) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 April 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that librarian Amanda Jones won an award from the American Library Association for not backing down after receiving death threats for speaking out against book censorship?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Amanda Jones (librarian).

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Did you know nomination

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.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 20:30, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Louisiana librarian Amanda Jones received death threats in 2022 for speaking out against censorship, after which she increased her visibility and political activism against book bans? Source: https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/A-First-Time-for-Everything-Wins-2023-National-Book-Award-for-Young-Peoples-Literature
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/opinion/librarian-book-bans-freedom-of-speech.html?showTranscript=1
- ALT1: ... that Louisiana librarian Amanda Jones was doxed and received death threats in 2022 for speaking out against book censorship and won an award from the American Library Association for not backing down? Source: https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2023/04/amanda-jones-2023-paul-howard-award-courage-recipient
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- Comment: the article is by a new editor who just completed a WikiEdu course -- I think the article meets the criteria. I've made some minor edits and tweaks. Update: added 3 images, one relevant to the hook and ALT1.

The article was created March 12 with 659 bytes and expanded March 19 with ~1050 and over 8,000 bytes by March 25th.

https://dashboard.wikiedu.org/courses/Wiki_Education/History_of_Social_Movements_in_the_US_Wiki_Scholars_(Spring_2024)/students/overview

5x expanded by Awkwardgator13 (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.

ProfGray (talk) 21:07, 26 March 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Not a review, and I do my QPQs oldest first so would not get to this any time soon; both hooks violate WP:DYK200, and I doubly fear ALT0 could date.--Laun chba ller 22:30, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks, Laun chba ller, I shortened both ALT0 and ALT1 and I think resolved the date issue. More feedback welcome! ProfGray (talk) 01:25, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Full review needed.--Laun chba ller 06:22, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New enough, long enough, DYK check all green. A surprising number of excellent cites. There is one statement after cite 7 that is unsourced. I checked sources 7, 8 and 9, and none of these mention this. It is possible one of the other cites does, but I could not see it. Suggest removing this statement. Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:03, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

You are right, references were omitted by mistake. The editor has now added five citations for the two sentences involved. Please see renumbered sources 8,9,10,11,12. Diff at: [1] Thank you, Maury Markowitz for catching this. ProfGray (talk) 18:57, 3 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The changes above fix the issues. This is GTG! Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:32, 4 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

To add to article

In order to make this article more properly encyclopedic, shouldn't we mention the name of the school where Jones serves as school librarian? 98.123.38.211 (talk) 16:42, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. Good question. We don't necessarily need to name the specific school. This article is subject to the guidelines for Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons, which includes a presumption of privacy. In this case, we should be especially careful because the subject has been harassed, as described in the article. ProfGray (talk) 17:12, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]