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Good articleWilliam H. Davis (educator) has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
March 28, 2022Guild of Copy EditorsCopyedited
July 7, 2022Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 14, 2022.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that William H. Davis (pictured) was the first teacher of Booker T. Washington and the first African American to be nominated as a candidate for West Virginia governor in 1888?
Current status: Good article


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 Kavyansh.Singh (talk07:53, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Portrait of William H. Davis
Portrait of William H. Davis

Improved to Good Article status by West Virginian (talk). Self-nominated at 01:15, 17 July 2022 (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
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: Done.

Overall: I am willing to IAR the nomination for being a couple days late, with the understanding that this is a one-time exception for this editor. Z1720 (talk) 16:41, 17 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

William H Davis had a total of 5 daughters and 3 sons. His daughter, Nina Davis Alexander, and sons: Edmund, John and William preceded him in death. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.203.142.238 (talk) 17:31, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If you know of a reliable source that mentions the other children, we can add them. In the meantime I reworded the text to avoid implying that the named daughters were his only children. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 18:13, 7 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]