Template:Did you know nominations/Michael Phillips (historian)

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The result was: promoted by Z1720 (talk) 22:05, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Michael Phillips (historian)

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• ... that between 2021 and 2022, four professors including historian Michael Phillips claimed to have been fired by Collin College in Texas over their political beliefs? Source: "He’s now the fourth professor to be fired from the public community college in Texas over free speech issues" [1]

  "Michael Phillips recently became the fourth professor in the past several months whose contract Collin College elected not to renew, according to KERA News" [2]

  "At the sprawling North Texas community college, ranked one of the nation’s worst for freedom of expression, four professors say they were let go for speaking their minds."[3]

  • ALT1: ... that historian Michael Phillips was the fourth professor in a span of months who claimed to have been fired by Collin College in Texas over his political beliefs? Source: same as above
  • ALT2: ... that in 2022, Michael Phillips became the third professor in a year to sue Collin College for allegedly violating his freedom of speech? Source: "This makes Phillips the third professor to sue Collin College over alleged free speech violations in the past year"[4]
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/This Tender Land
  • Comment: Technically I'm 2 hours too late to nominate this but I'm hoping you can cut me a break. Technically it's been expanded 5x times in the past week so it's good, phew.

Created by Stephaniedrenka (talk) and BuySomeApples (talk). Nominated by BuySomeApples (talk) at 01:50, 19 July 2022 (UTC).

• The article is long enough and new enough. And yes, it was nominated timely; the "time" starts when the article is moved to mainspace, which was 12 July 00:26, so a nomination on 18 July 18:50 is timely. I don't find any copyvios. QPQ was done. Hooks are sourced and OK for length. So I am ready to approve this, except that I'd like to discuss the choice of hook with the nominator. I didn't care for Hook 1, which makes him sound like a kind of also-ran rather than a person of importance in himself. Alt-1 is good except for the phrase "a span of months" - can that be made less vague? Alt-2 is OK, and I prefer it over the others unless you want to tweak one of the others. @BuySomeApples: pinging nominator for input. -- MelanieN (talk) 17:52, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
  • Thank you for the review @MelanieN:! The exact timeline of all the firings is hard to source because a lot of articles have vague or conflicting information, so let's just go with ALT2. BuySomeApples (talk) 03:11, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

Good to go with ALT2. -- MelanieN (talk) 14:55, 22 July 2022 (UTC)