A fact from Erick Russell appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 November 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Erick Russell is the first openly gay African American elected to a statewide office in the United States?
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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 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.
New – within the past seven days, the article has been created (sandbox → mainspace is eligible) --> Moved from Draft:Erick Russell on November 12, 2022.
Long enough – the prose portion is at least 1,500 characters --> 1717 characters (269 words) "readable prose size"
Within policy – meets core policies and guidelines, and in particular:
is neutral --> Content reads as neutral without peacock terms. An example is the opening sentence, Erick Russell is an American politician from Connecticut, which doesn't give undue weight to any positive or negative news story.
cites sources with inline citations ---> 12 sources cited, all from reliable websites.
Format – no more than 200 characters (shorter is better) and meets the formatting guidelines --> Length is adequate.
Content
interesting to a broad audience --> Hook demonstrates how subject is the first person of a minority sexual orientation and US ethnicity to hold a high-profile job.
hook fact is accurate and cited with an inline citation in the article --> Garnering 52% of votes, Russell became the first Black LGBTQ candidate elected to statewide office", as cited by The CT Mirror. Matches hook.
neutral and does not focus unduly on negative aspects of living people --> Hook is neutral
Other
QPQ – all nominators who have five or more DYK nominations must review another article. QPQ completed - Fourth QPQ of nine from Template:Did you know nominations/Arellano Chiefs basketball
--Coin945 (talk) 13:04, 14 November 2022 (UTC)