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 Bruxton (talk) 20:32, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
Created by GenQuest (talk). Self-nominated at 15:00, 29 January 2023 (UTC). Note: As of October 2022, all changes made to promoted hooks will be logged by a bot. The log for this nomination can be found at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Lovely's Purchase, so please watch a successfully closed nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.
I added and additional ALT that I think reads better than the first. GenQuest"scribble" 18:03, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
@GenQuest: I wanted to promote this but was wondering why the last sentence of the "Major Lovely" paragraph didn't have a citation...thought it was probably an easy fix...then found that I can't seem to find a source referring to Lovely's multi-step purchase starting in 1813? I don't doubt that it exists somewhere, but I'm not seeing it in the Agnew article, in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas, or Muskogee Phoenix. Cielquiparle (talk) 03:22, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
@Cielquiparle: I fixed the confusion and mixed-up dates. Thanks for pointing it out. GenQuest"scribble" 21:43, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
GenQuest I haven't had a chance to re-review the article line by line, as that would take some time, but I haven't blocked it from being promoted either, so if it looks ok to another editor, it could still get promoted by someone else in the meantime. (Regardless, it generally takes a long time for hooks to get promoted, unless the hook is so amazing that everyone is clamoring to promote it first.) Cielquiparle (talk) 16:11, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
Request for Second Opinion: Pinging: Flibirigit, or Onegreatjoke, or Aoidh, or Narutolovehinata5, or Muboshgu. I believe these articles (see Buchanan's Station; Template:Did you know nominations/Buchanan's Station as well) are well beyond the threshold for DYK criteria and advancement, and are being held to a much higher standard than necessary: this is not a Good Article review. They have been held up long enough, and I can't keep spending my limited editing time jumping through moving hoops on either of them. Can someone please pass them? Thanks, GenQuest"scribble" 20:17, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
My general feeling is that this article is in better shape than the other one (on Buchanan's Station), following the fixes mentioned above which hopefully resolved the failed verification and missing citation issues. I would also appreciate another reviewer to look at this closely, and provide a green tick mark if it looks ok. Thanks in advance. Cielquiparle (talk) 20:35, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
Overall: I prefer the first hook. BorgQueen (talk) 16:30, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
oops the hook is 208 characters Bruxton (talk) 20:36, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
I reworded and promoted ALT0 to change it from 208 characters to 194
ALT0a ... that President James Monroe promised the eastern Cherokee a "gateway to the setting sun – where they were not surrounded by the White man" and that resulted in the creation of Lovely's Purchase? Bruxton (talk) 20:40, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
- Where is hook 1? See comments below. GenQuest "scribble"
@GenQuest: Good article, but I can't seem to find the first hook anywhere in the article.
I see Onegreatjoke (talk) 02:59, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
My general feeling is that this article is in better shape than the other one (on Buchanan's Station), following the fixes mentioned above which hopefully resolved the failed verification and missing citation issues. I would also appreciate another reviewer to look at this closely, and provide a green tick mark if it looks ok. Thanks in advance. Cielquiparle (talk) 20:35, 15 March 2023 (UTC)