User talk:MalachiReschke

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Theroadislong (talk) 16:09, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DYK nomination

Hi, MalachiReschke! I think you could nominate this article for "Did you know...", which puts a link to it on the Main Page for 24 hours. If you're interested, I can walk you through the process. --valereee (talk) 16:35, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee: That would be great! As soon as I insert a categories box, I'd love to have you go over that with me. Thank you! Nevermind, you seem to have covered the categorization already. Thanks again! --MalachiReschke (talk) 18:16, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Great! The form to nominate is here. There's a learning curve, but I'm happy to help. Before you start, you need to think of a "hook," which is some short fact from the article that would be likely to make a random reader think, "Huh, that's interesting" and want to click through the read the article. You could do something like "... that nearly 80,000 black Mississippians cast a vote in the 1963 Freedom Ballot, four times the number who were registered to vote?", for example. You want to provide a link to a source/sources that very clearly supports all points in the hook; for that example I'd use the ibiblio sncc source. You want to provide the exact quote within that source that supports your hook; for that example I'd use "Nearly 80,000 blacks came out to vote, four times the number of blacks registered to vote in the state."

There are instructions at the nomination form, plus links for details and clarifications, etc. Ping me with any questions; my editing hours are primarily 5am - 5pm Eastern, so if you start the process at that time of day I'm likely to be available within a couple hours at most. In the meantime I'll go do a DYK check on the article to make sure all our ducks are in a row. --valereee (talk) 12:06, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee: Hello again. I just wanted to know if you would like to be included as an author since you contributed so much to the article. --MalachiReschke (talk) 19:25, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's so kind! No, this is your article! You create and nominate! It's a very big deal for a brand new editor to write an article from scratch. --valereee (talk) 19:50, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee: I'm not sure how this will affect the process, but I created the article on May 26th, which would put it outside the one-week requirement. Is this an issue? Thanks again for guiding me through the process. --MalachiReschke (talk) 19:57, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Nope, the date starts counting from when the article was moved from draft space, which was yesterday. When you post it to the noms page, place it under June 9th. --valereee (talk) 20:01, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee: Alright, I think I did it correctly and have submitted the edit. I know I keep saying this but thank you for the time and effort you've put into helping me; you've made my first editing experience great and I'm looking forward to many more. Again, thank you so much! --MalachiReschke (talk) 20:16, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good! You're very welcome, I like working with new editors. Now you just want to make sure to keep track of the review. It can take days to weeks for a reviewer to pick it up. Because I'm involved, I can't review, but eventually someone will. When they do, you'll see it on your Watchlist, so keep an eye out there. Sometimes reviewers have questions or will ask for changes to the article, sometimes they'll suggest a tweak to the hook or a completely different hook. Just keep an eye on it and respond to reviewers and commenters until you see it get passed as a successful review. --valereee (talk) 20:26, 10 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

1963 Freedom Ballot

Due to appear on main page July 30 --valereee (talk) 16:14, 29 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Valereee: Hurray! Thank you again for the help, it wouldn't have happened without you! --MalachiReschke (talk) 04:23, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Did you see the pageview stats? Here --valereee (talk) 11:05, 31 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

DYK for 1963 Freedom Ballot

On 30 July 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1963 Freedom Ballot, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that nearly 80,000 black Mississippians cast a vote in the 1963 Freedom Ballot mock election, four times more than the number of officially-registered black voters? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1963 Freedom Ballot. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, 1963 Freedom Ballot), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

valereee (talk) 00:01, 30 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]