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Did you know nomination

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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.

The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk09:33, 3 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Created by Gobonobo (talk). Self-nominated at 22:51, 30 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Nancy Brown (columnist); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Gobonobo: Alright, the nomination looks mostly alright, as the criteria are satisfied and the QPQ review has been completed. My only doubt is about the source you've used, as it's an article from The Detroit News (the newspaper Brown worked for) and, as such, might not be considered as totally independent from the subject... Also, I think it could be useful to add a few pipe-links to the hook (at least for "clearcut" and "Great Depression"), as well as the year the campaign was started in. Still a good job, though! Oltrepier (talk) 10:45, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Oltrepier I've added wikilinks to the hook as you suggested. I think people generally know when the Great Depression was, so I didn't mention the year. I hesitated to use the Detroit News source at first as a non-independent source. As the level of detail there was far beyond the other sources I have access to, I decided it was better to include it. I think given that we're talking about a career that ended 80 years ago and an article that is otherwise a quality source, that we can safely use the source in the article for concrete facts without compromising our NPOV. I've added another source that verifies the reforestation project to the ALT1 hook and to the article. gobonobo + c 16:04, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Gobonobo Yeah, you're right: thank you for explaining your decision! I think ALT1 should be good to go now. Oltrepier (talk) 16:12, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]