Talk:If We Must Die

A fact from If We Must Die appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 March 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Claude McKay's poem "If We Must Die" has been cited as marking the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance?

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:11, 15 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Claude McKay's poem "If We Must Die" has been cited as marking the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance? Source: [1]
- ALT1:... that Claude McKay's poem "If We Must Die" has been described as expressing the voice of those who are "fighting with their backs against the wall to win their freedom.”? Source: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/claude-mckay

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Comment: may well be better alts here

5x expanded by Eddie891 (talk). Self-nominated at 22:45, 21 February 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Comment: How is this "Created by..." as the article dates to 2017??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by David notMD (talk • contribs) 05:40, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

David notMD (I think) actually it’s 5x expanded , I’ve amended accordingly. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 14:43, 23 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is a well-written encyclopaedic article and the authors have done well to extend the representation of African-American culture on Wikipedia. The nominator expanded it from 169 words readable prose to 977 words, qualifying it for DYK. The article is written neutrally and based on suitable scholarly sources with inline citations. I've fixed a couple of typos (deify/defy) and expanded the key citation. The hooks are short enough, sourced inline in the article, and properly formatted. I greatly prefer the first hook, connecting the poem to other events, over the statement of the content of the poem. QPQ is not done? Earwig gives a high score, unsurprisingly because the article quotes the poem and other sources discussing the poem also quote it in full. However, Earwig also shows that the opening two sentences of the article match the opening two sentences of [2]. Could these two sentences be rewritten, maybe giving a bit more introduction to who Claude McKay was? Looking again, that source is from 2020, after those sentences appeared in the article, so there is no copyright problem. ~~This and the QPQ are all that needs to be fixed before it qualifies for DYK.~~ Just awaiting the QPQ. MartinPoulter (talk) 11:12, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

MartinPoulter, reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/Noah Beck Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 14:43, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is now good to go. Good work! MartinPoulter (talk) 16:31, 11 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]