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 Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:48, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
... that Eugene C. Barker(pictured) was involved in "the biggest bear fight" in Texas history with Texas Governor James "Pa" Ferguson, but Barker kept his job and Ferguson was impeached?" Source:[1] (pp. 31–33.)
ALT1:... that "Barker published his biography of Stephen F. Austin in 1925. Despite the importance of Austin to Texas history, no other scholarly biographer challenged Barker's Austin with a full-length biography until 1999."? Source: [2] (p. 34)
ALT2:... that "Barker assumed the chair of the history department at the University of Texas in 1910; that year he was appointed as managing director of the Texas State Historical Association, while also assuming the role as editor of the organization's journal, the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association."? Source: [3] (pp. 27–28.)
ALT3: ... that, though Eugene C. Barker published his biography of the "Father of Texas", Stephen F. Austin, in 1925, it was not challenged by another scholarly biographer until 1999? Source:"Nearly seventy five years passed before another scholarly biography appeared on Austin, Gregg Cantrell's Stephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas in 1999." Patrick L. Cox, "Eugene C. Barker," in Cox and Hendrickson (2013), Writing the Story of Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press), p. 34. [4]
Created by Oldsanfelipe2 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:53, 12 February 2020 (UTC).
@Oldsanfelipe2: No hook has been proposed here; please propose a hook so that the nomination can continue. Narutolovehinata5tccsdnew 03:24, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
@Oldsanfelipe2: Welcome to DYK. Just a few tips of advice: you need to bold the article title and link it, like this: Eugene C. Barker. The DYK hook does not have to copy the sentence(s) in the article word-for-word. And the hook must be a single sentence, below 200 characters and must end in a question mark. Finally, no quotes are required around a proposed hook. The full list of hook rules are at WP:DYKHOOK.
Based on this, ALT1 and ALT2 are far too long, so I've crossed them out. I've written ALT3 as an example only; there are still some things that need to be clarified, e.g. who Stephen F. Austin is. epicgenius (talk) 13:53, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
@Oldsanfelipe2: I will take this review and help guide you through the DYK process. Michael Barera (talk) 01:19, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
Overall: Great work, Oldsanfelipe2! I've read and reviewed the article and everything looks good to me. I'm accepting the book sources in good faith. Note that QPQ does not apply as Oldsanfelipe2 is still below the five-DYK threshold. Also note that Earwig's Copyvio Detector gives a few unusually high confidence percentages for plagiarism (33% and 27%), but I have confirmed that all these "hits" are names of institutions or publications and thus not an issue. I really like the original hook, and I think that it would work well. ALT3 is fine, too, but I prefer the original hook, which I've tweaked a little and added the image. Once again, great work! Michael Barera (talk) 22:06, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
@Oldsanfelipe2: No hook has been proposed here; please propose a hook so that the nomination can continue. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 03:24, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
Great work, Oldsanfelipe2! I've read and reviewed the article and everything looks good to me. I'm accepting the book sources in good faith. Note that QPQ does not apply as Oldsanfelipe2 is still below the five-DYK threshold. Also note that Earwig's Copyvio Detector gives a few unusually high confidence percentages for plagiarism (33% and 27%), but I have confirmed that all these "hits" are names of institutions or publications and thus not an issue. I really like the original hook, and I think that it would work well. ALT3 is fine, too, but I prefer the original hook, which I've tweaked a little and added the image. Once again, great work! Michael Barera (talk) 22:06, 2 March 2020 (UTC)