A fact from Lynching of Henry Lowry appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 June 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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I’m totally against the lynching but the article is ruining the whole story here:
“(...) who had a wife and child and was a hardworking man who did not drink, had come to work for Craig some two years before. Craig was a powerful man and did not want his workers to leave or have freedom of movement”. You can’t be so passionate in Wikipedia, even if it’s sourced, it shouldn’t be added. This is not organized as a quote, it’s simply written like every fact related to the topic. There was a extensive reading before the you you finally know that he killed a couple. He killed the man and his wife and wounded 2 more. Lynching is a terrible thing, but let’s not act like this is not punishable legally by the law. This kind of narrative in terms of making possible a “martyrdom” is not what Wikipedia proposes. This is not about preaching, passions, narratives, is about facts and impartiality. Pickens made the relate and is one of the only sources available, but you don’t need to add his adjectives like that, it’s improperly formatted, it can be added within parenthesis, or as a quote separated from the more factual parts of the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2804:D55:2A0B:57B1:F016:107E:102E:CDE2 (talk) 13:43, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
