Template:Did you know nominations/Sam Smith (Washington)

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The result was: rejected by Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:09, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
Withdrawn by nominator.

Sam Smith (Washington)

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... that the third African-American elected to the Washington State Legislature, Democrat Sam Smith, won office by defeating the second African-American elected to that body, Republican Charles Stokes?

Created by DocumentError (talk). Self nominated at 10:55, 21 September 2014 (UTC).

The article is in good shape, but the hook is not cited in the given ref. The hook statement is linked to a page about a park named in his honour, and it doesn't really talk about Smith at all. There is a link off of that page, but I'm not sure it's an RS (still checking it out). I looked in the main bio article from the newspaper, but it doesn't make this statement. Can you re-point the ref to the right cite? Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:31, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

I have made minor style and inlink changes to the hook, the content is unchanged. Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:34, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
Oh, and QPQ bye, <5 DYK's. Maury Markowitz (talk) 14:36, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Got it - I'll withdraw this one then. DocumentError (talk) 14:43, 21 September 2014 (UTC)

Withdrawn by nominator. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:04, 13 October 2014 (UTC)