Template:Did you know nominations/Letter to the American people

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 16:30, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Letter to the American people

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• ... that parts of Osama bin Laden's letter to the American people featuring homophobia and misogyny were omitted by TikTok users who otherwise endorsed the letter? Source: https://www.euronews.com/2023/11/17/tiktok-takes-down-videos-promoting-osama-bin-ladens-letter-to-america-after-text-went-vira
  • ALT1: ... that a letter purportedly by Osama bin Laden that went viral on TikTok is being used by American right-wingers to call for a ban on the app? Source: https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-bin-laden-letter-to-america-conspiracies/
  • ALT2: ... that in a letter purportedly by Osama bin Laden, he calls for the United States to convert to Islam? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20040615081002/http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,845725,00.html
  • ALT3: ... that a letter to the American people written allegedly by Osama bin Laden has been cited as an example of online youth radicalization? Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/11/16/guardian-osama-bin-laden-letter-to-america/
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/James Meager

Created by PhotographyEdits (talk). Nominated by Knightoftheswords281 (talk) at 23:40, 22 November 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Letter to the American people; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Good to go once the Twitter citation is removed. All hooks are good, but the third one is probably the best. — Sourcing is fine, however please remove the Twitter citation. This claim about views was in the Washington Post, no need to link to Twitter also. MaxnaCarta  ( 💬 • 📝 ) 08:44, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

• @MaxnaCarta: The Twitter citation has been removed. — Knightoftheswords 00:01, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

GTG Y — MaxnaCarta  ( 💬 • 📝 ) 01:20, 23 December 2023 (UTC)