Talk:Freedom Farm Cooperative

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 SL93 (talk) 00:20, 21 January 2021 (UTC)

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• ... that the pig bank at the Freedom Farm Cooperative loaned out pigs to families who paid interest in the form of piglets? Source: "The gilts were loaned out to families where they would return piglets to the bank as interest." (Food & Wine magazine)
  • ALT1:... that Fannie Lou Hamer founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative so African American farmers could exercise the right to vote without fear of losing their ability to feed their families? Source: "Starvation was one of many strategies used to prevent African Americans from voting." (Food & Wine magazine)
  • ALT2:... that Fannie Lou Hamer founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative because white plantation owners were firing African American sharecroppers for exercising the right to vote?Source: "An agricultural cooperative built on 640 acres, Freedom Farms included a pig bank... and low-income, affordable housing as strategies to support the needs of African Americans who were fired and evicted for exercising the right to vote" (Food & Foodways journal)
  • ALT3:... that Fannie Lou Hamer founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative after she lost her job on a plantation for registering to vote? Source: "In 1944, she married...and the couple toiled on the Mississippi plantation owned by B.D. Marlowe until 1962. ... Hamer was incensed by efforts to deny Blacks the right to vote. She became a SNCC organizer and on August 31, 1962 led 17 volunteers to register to vote ... That night, Marlow fired Hamer for her attempt to vote; her husband was required to stay until the harvest." (National Women’s History Museum)

• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Blaire Erskine

5x expanded by Innisfree987 (talk). Self-nominated at 16:42, 6 January 2021 (UTC).

• ALT0 and ALT3 // ALT1 and ALT2. New enough (expanded 5× Jan 4), long enough (5,405 characters), neutral, well-cited to reliable sources, copyvio pings are lists and proper nouns. ALT0: 120 characters, cited to and in ref 2. ALT1: 180 characters, cited in source 2 but needs to be cited more clearly in the article. ALT2: 167 characters, not sure if the direct "because" is supported. The article mentions that the FFC was founded "to improve nutrition, affordable housing and entrepreneurship opportunities for African Americans" which support the idea but don't draw the causal relationship that Hamer did it because of those reasons. ALT3: 122 characters, cited to and in ref 4. QPQ looks good, no image in nom. ALT0 and ALT3 good to go, ALT1 and ALT2 need some work. ALT0 is definitely the hookiest but all are suitably interesting. —Collin^{t c} 20:25, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

• Thank you for this thorough review Collin! Either 0 or 3 work for me, but I’ll address the issues with 1 and 2 (2 in particular feels to me like it gets at something essential about the entry) and ping once finished. Innisfree987 (talk) 21:52, 7 January 2021 (UTC)

• Ok, pinging Bobamnertiopsis as all is spelled out more clearly in the entry now. For causality, I re-checked sources and a few things contributed but I think it’s definitely accurate to say:

• ALT2a:... that Fannie Lou Hamer founded the Freedom Farm Cooperative in response to white plantation owners evicting African American sharecroppers for exercising the right to vote?

That said, of course we can’t use four hooks anyhow, so we can go with another one if preferred. True that ALT0 is quirkiest; I go back and forth about whether I think that’s a good thing, welcome your input. Innisfree987 (talk) 09:46, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi Innisfree987, thanks for working on the article more even after it passed DYK. Hook ALT2a is now fine except that in looking at the article again I was given pause by the closeness of the source text from White (2017) "In 1969, more than 100 families were evicted from shacks and tent homes where they resided on white plantations." to the article text, "in 1969, more than 100 families were evicted from the shacks or tents they lived in on white-owned plantation". Do you think you could rephrase this so it's less of a problematic close paraphrase? Thanks! —Collin^{t c} 06:02, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Ack! Thank you for catching that. Fixed now and I’ve passed through Earwig and I think there are no others but it’s here for convenience. Thank you again for the attention to detail Collin. Innisfree987 (talk) 06:27, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Cool, thank you! G2g for ALT0, ALT2a, and ALT3. —Collin^{t c} 17:38, 11 January 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Black Foodways in the United States

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 18 January 2023 and 5 May 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Mantaray2 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Mantaray2 (talk) 18:24, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

Done! Thank you Dr. Z :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mantaray2 (talk • contribs) 20:20, 28 April 2023 (UTC)