Talk:John Ystumllyn

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Did you know... that John Ystumllyn (portrait shown) has been described as the first black person of North Wales "about whom we have detailed knowledge"?

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"Persity"

The last quote on the page from Ingram uses the word "persity" which is not in any dictionary. Could you link it to a different definition in Wiktionary? Yoninah (talk) 14:47, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The term does seem to be rather obscure. The Maryland Department of Health defines it as "human qualities that are different from our own and those of groups to which we belong; but that are manifested in other individuals and groups", while several other sources ([1] [2] [3] [4]) use it as a synonym of diversity or variety. Perhaps a link to per se, from which it is probably derived, would be appropriate. Tenpop421 (talk) 17:21, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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 Yoninah (talk) 14:45, 10 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Portrait of John Ystumllyn, 1754

... that John Ystumllyn (pictured) has been described as the first black person of North Wales "about whom we have detailed knowledge"? Green, Andrew. (2019). Ystumllyn, John (d. 1786). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- ALT1:... that black Welshman John Ystumllyn (pictured) had only one regret on his deathbed, that he had played his crwth on Sabbath? Source: Green, Andrew. (2019). Ystumllyn, John (d. 1786). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Are we less racist than the rest of Britain?. NorthWalesLive

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Comment: Interesting little biography, created for Black History Month in the UK. Note that this biography quotes at length from a 19th-century account of Ystumllyn's life, so may set off several copyvio detectors.

Created by Tenpop421 (talk). Self-nominated at 15:34, 12 October 2019 (UTC).[reply]

This interesting article is new enough and long enough. The image is in the public domain, but I prefer the uncropped version present in the article. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues (the Earwig tool came up with a 85% likelihood of copyvio, but it was just legitimate quotations). A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:09, 27 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Replaced image with larger and slightly clearer one from article. Yoninah (talk) 19:54, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]