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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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 20:35, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

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List of presidents of Centre College

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  • ... that fourteen of the first sixteen presidents of Centre College were Presbyterian ministers? Source: Centre College: a Bicentennial History (Weston, 2019): "Thus it came about that in 1870 Ormond Beatty became the first president of Centre College who was not a minister.", and CentreCyclopedia: "...and even though a layman (he would become only the second lay president, Ormand Beatty [sic] being the first)..."
    • Reviewed: Shel Kaphan
    • Comment: Very open to alternate hook suggestions

Moved to mainspace by PCN02WPS (talk). Self-nominated at 18:05, 3 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/List of presidents of Centre College; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

  • Making a suggestion per the above comment:
ALT1 ... that James McChord is considered the first president of Centre College despite dying before officially taking up the role?
Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:08, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
@Narutolovehinata5: I like that hook so much that I actually used it for the hook I ran for his article, so I don't know if it's too similar to repeat here. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 14:31, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
@PCN02WPS: Given that the article ran almost two years ago and this new hook isn't a word-for-word copy of the old one, I don't think it would hurt to run this particular hook fact again. I imagine that most people who read that previous hook would no longer remember if the saw this one. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 19:01, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
@Narutolovehinata5: Good point. Works for me! PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 02:37, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
Agreed that we should go with ALT1. The chance of a DYK reader having seen the previous hook is extremely low. Sdkb talk 15:56, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
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: Looks good. Nice work. ALT1 is best. BeanieFan11 (talk) 23:39, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
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