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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 Vaticidalprophet (talk12:30, 16 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that Walt Whitman's poem "The Sleepers" contains "one of the most powerful and evocative passages about slavery in American literature"?
    • ALT1:... that Walt Whitman's 1855 poem "The Sleepers" initially contained his most direct condemnation of slavery, but he removed it in later publications?

Created by Eddie891 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:50, 12 April 2021 (UTC).[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: Accepting offline sources in good faith (not used in hook). GeneralPoxter (talk) 16:28, 15 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Versioning

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Since the poem has so many versions (as explained in the article), maybe preface all quotes with the edition they're taken from? The quotes mentioning the whale don't appear to be in any version of the poem I can find online, e. g. Gutenberg, poetry.com, poemhunter.com. IAmNitpicking (talk) 19:17, 21 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

IAmNitpicking, I'd consider an early version of the metaphor in Whitman's notebook to be pretty clear attribution of where that quote comes from (it's from his notebook, not the finished version of the poem) Eddie891 Talk Work 15:12, 5 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]