Talk:Eddie Canales

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 talk 10:40, 16 October 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that efforts by Eddie Canales and other activists led to the discovery that some bodies of undocumented immigrants in Texas had been buried in shopping bags?

• Source: Eddie Canales, who campaigned to prevent migrant deaths, dies at 76, Washington Post: "For years, when unidentified bodies were recovered in the county, they were buried, at times in unmarked graves. Mr. Canales and other activists helped push for the enforcement of a Texas law mandating that unidentified remains undergo DNA testing, and championed the exhumation of unidentified bodies from the county cemetery... The effort led to a horrifying revelation when researchers exhuming a mass burial site at the cemetery found remains “in trash bags, shopping bags, body bags, or no containers at all,”"

• ALT1: ... that Eddie Canales set up nearly 200 water stations along an area of the US-Mexico border to save the lives of undocumented immigrants? Source: Eddie Canales, who set up nearly 200 water stations along U.S.-Mexico border, dead at 76, CBC: "He spent much of the last decade of his life travelling along the U.S. southern border to place and refill large barrels of water for those making the dangerous — and often deadly — journey across the arid desert to the U.S... The South Texas Human Rights Center estimates he placed nearly 200 of these water stations across seven counties..."
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Created by Mrfoogles (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Mrfoogles (talk) 22:35, 4 September 2024 (UTC).

• Note from author: Would appreciate some guidance on how many wikilinks should be added, it seems like DYKs have more of those but I'm not sure exactly how much more. Mrfoogles (talk) 22:47, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
  • Just took a quick look at the article, and I don't think biographical articles would normally have so mnay links right at the bottom - I think it's more usual to have e.g. all the obituaries as inline citations Lajmmoore (talk) 08:25, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
    • I was mostly using that as a place to put sources I found but hadn't used: sometimes Further reading sections are useful to editors who are looking for sources to expand the article, especially on stubs. But it is maybe a little excessive here considering sources are easy to find. Moved it to the talk page. Mrfoogles (talk) 19:57, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Picking this up for review

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Earwig gives violation unlikely, and phrases that are detected are mostly generic such as facts and place names. Sources: AGF for ALT0: source is paywalled and inacessible until wayback machine comes back online. ALT1 accessible and checks out.

ALT0 and ALT1 are both interesting, and within other policies. All good DimensionalFusion (talk · she/her) 11:01, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Extra sources

If anyone is looking for sources, these are some that I found while researching for the article (in further reading format because they were originally there)

Obituaries and tributes

• Nickas, Katie (1 August 2024). "Edward 'Eddie' Canales, Corpus Christi advocate for migrants and laborers, dies at 76". Caller Times.
• Tamez, Ana (1 August 2024). "Immigrants' rights advocate Eduardo 'Eddie' Canales dies Wednesday". KIII.

• Muro, Nanzi (7 August 2024). "Eddie Canales ¡Presente! A Longtime Human Rights Activist Has Died". People's Tribune.
• Del Bosque, Melissa (21 August 2024). "A Visionary in the Borderlands". Texas Observer.
• Pope, Pachatta (31 July 2024). "Texas migrant advocate, civil rights activist Eddie Canales dies at 76". KSAT-TV.
• "Honoring the life of Eduardo "Eddie" Canales". National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. 31 July 2024.

News coverage while living

• Del Bosque, Melissa (16 June 2014). "Tyrant's Foe: Eddie Canales Is Saving the Lives of Undocumented Immigrants". The Texas Observer.
• Hennessy-Fiske, Molly (19 July 2014). "Migrant crisis expands north from border, into arid Texas wilderness". Los Angeles Times.
• Davies, David Martin (30 December 2019). "The Dead In The Desert: Water Stations Save Lives". Texas Public Radio.
• Isacson, Adam (30 October 2020). "Preventing Migrant Deaths at the U.S.-Mexico Border". Washington Office on Latin America.
• Gibson, Michael (4 June 2021). "South Texas Human Rights Center calling for immigration policy changes". KIII.
• Monroe, Rachel (2 August 2022). "The Missing Migrants of South Texas". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X.
• Sanchez, Sandra (15 July 2022). "Watering stations a lifeline for migrants wandering under intense heat of South Texas". Border Report.
• Cabrera, Kristen (15 August 2023). "Life-saving water stations along migrant routes in South Texas brush go missing". Texas Standard.

Mrfoogles (talk) 19:56, 2 October 2024 (UTC)