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A fact from Sigismund Danielewicz appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 December 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Sigismund Danielewicz's(pictured) career in the California labor movement ended after he delivered an 1885 speech advocating against the persecution of Chinese people?
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.
ALT1: ... that an 1885 speech in which Sigismund Danielewicz(pictured) advocated against persecution of Chinese people by the California labor movement got Danielewicz booed off the stage and ended his organizing career? Source: see ALT0
Overall: @Ezlev: New enough (made and nominated on 22 November 2021), long enough, Earwig detected 22% similarity but mostly quotes and titles of articles so that's nothing of note. Hook is cited, all are fine and are contained within the article that is provided. I'm going to assume good faith for the offline articles provided within the main page. The hook is interesting as well! Ornithoptera (talk) 11:11, 22 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the review, Ornithoptera, and glad you like the hook! Looks like you didn't review the image, so I just wanted to (belatedly) check on that? I've added the relevant parameters as blanks in the template in case you want to plug in a quick review. ezlev (user/tlk/ctrbs) 07:49, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Ezlev: OOPS, my bad! I must have gotten so caught up with looking over the rest of the article I forgot to check over the image, that's my bad. Sorry about that, I didn't mean to look over that! Thank you so much for making it extra accessible though! I really appreciate it! Good job and thanks for catching my mistake on that one! Ornithoptera (talk) 08:06, 28 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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If he travelled to the United States in the late 1870s, then that means he spent 30 years of his life in Poland, but there's almost no detail about that here. Do we know anything about his life in Poland? Or do all sources focus on his time in America?
I haven't been able to find anything whatsoever about his life in Poland. I assume that would require knowing enough Polish to even know where to start looking, which I don't. I'll poke around a bit just in case, though.
No need for the duplicate citation to Rosenbaum 2009 after "Congress Poland".
All of the sources in this section are to newspapers. Are there any historical sources that cover this period of Danielewicz's activities?
Not really. I've exchanged emails on the subject with Kenyon Zimmer, who is extensively cited here – he says he's only located retroactive mentions of Danielewicz's time in Hawaii, but gave me one such mention, which I've now cited in this section.
"San Francisco International Workingmen's Association (IWA) Should probably say "San Francisco branch of the International Workingmen's Association (IWA)".
Clarified with similar wording
"Danielewicz was serving as secretary of the IWA's central committee." Of the local San Francisco branch or the IWA in general?
Looks like it was San Francisco. Clarified.
"At a West Coast conference [...]" This is a very long run-on sentence and should probably be broken up a bit.
How did Danielewicz become associated with anarchism? Right now there's no clear explanation. Was he always an anarchist? Did he become one after working in the labor movement?
I haven't found any clear explanation. My assumption is that his alienation from the organized labor scene pushed him to become more radical, but I have no source for that, so I wouldn't want to hint at it in the article.
"Danielewicz knew Yiddish" This was already mentioned in "Early life", there's no reason to repeat the information.
Fixed.
"at one point publishing a translation of an article" I'm guessing the translation was from Yiddish to English?
Yes, clarified.
arguing that "'their harvest' will probably be the gallows" Does he mean that the workers will be hanged or that the enemies of the workers would be?
The workers. Clarified.
Danielewicz is mentioned by name a lot in this section. Consider replacing his name with pronouns, where it's already clear who you're referring to.
Done
"he additionally met" Maybe "also" instead of "additionally"?
Done
"he described himself as a libertarian socialist" Source says "anti-state socialist", not "libertarian socialist". While I think it's fine to link to the article on libertarian socialism, we should use the words he used.
I have no source calling him American or noting his citizenship, so I'm not sure. I'll go with "a Polish-born labor organizer in the United States and Hawaii" for now and wait for your thoughts.
"After an 1885 speech [...]" This is all mentioned in the subsequent paragraphs, so it could be cut. Although given it's part of what makes him notable, I'd say it could be reduced to ", known for his advocacy against anti-Chinese sentiment in the American labor movement." or something similar.
Got it!
Parts of the second and third paragraphs could probably be reduced slightly for concision, but it's not important.
I don't think the explanatory footnote in the infobox is needed, as it's already mentioned in the "later activity and death" section.
Fixed.
Any information on the location of his birth and/or death? Even if it's just "Poland" and "United States", that's ok.
None, unfortunately. He almost certainly died in Los Angeles, given that he lived, worked, and was buried there – but I have no source so I'd rather not say for sure.
All citations are reliable. There's one section that draws exclusively from 19th-century newspapers, but this isn't a major issue, as they're all verifiable.
There's some gaps in his biography that really ought to be filled if they can be. It reads very odd to me that no information is provided about his life in Poland.
I'll assume good faith on this and pass it, as the nominator has found no additional information and has indicated a willingness to look further.
A couple cases in the "later activity" section where it focuses a bit too closely on the publications he works on, rather than on the subject specifically. But as these publications don't yet have their own articles, I can let this slide.
Images properly captioned. Alt text is provided for the photograph but not of the patent. If alt text can be provided, that'd be excellent, although I understand it's difficult to describe what is shown here.
Overall:
Pass or Fail:
Holding for now, until the holes in Danielewicz's biography are looked into. If nothing else can be found, then I'll pass this, but it should at least be looked into. Other than that, this is a very quality article and I found it very interesting to read. Excellent work! --Grnrchst (talk) 13:30, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
No worries! Thanks for addressing all of these points. If you haven't found any additional information on his time in Poland, then there's not really any more that can be done about that (at least without going through Polish sources). I'll go ahead and pass the article now. Excellent work on this article and congratulations on the GA! --Grnrchst (talk) 08:57, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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