Template:Did you know nominations/Lynching of Wilbur Little

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 16:51, 3 August 2020 (UTC)

Lynching of Wilbur Little

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... that Wilbur Little was lynched for wearing his World War I uniform after being discharged from the army? "He was one of many African-American servicemen of the time who were subjected to violence for continuing to wear their uniforms after being discharged from the military" (Sources: Navy admiral gets it all wrong about Kaepernick at Pearl Harbor ceremony, Red Summer: In 1919, white Americans visited awful violence on black Americans. So black Americans decided to fight back.)
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Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Elza van den Heever
Comment: Submitting on behalf of BTV55 who started this as a draft. promoted to mainspace on 2020-07-19. I did some post-acceptance expansion.

Moved to mainspace by BTV55 (talk) and RoySmith (talk). Nominated by RoySmith (talk) at 17:43, 20 July 2020 (UTC).

starting review Mujinga (talk) 21:59, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

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 eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems: - hook is referenced to source which says "There are many stories of African-American servicemen being beaten and lynched simply for wearing their service uniforms, including Wilbur Little in Blakely, Georgia." so we need another reference to be added for the "after being discharged from the army" bit

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Mujinga (talk) 22:06, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

@Mujinga: Added a second source which is more explicit about being discharged. The source uses the word "demobilized", but that's basically a synonym for discharged. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:27, 21 July 2020 (UTC)

yup that's great, thanks RoySmith for fast response. this is now good to go and congrats to BTV55 on their first DYK. Mujinga (talk) 09:11, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

NOTE - There is now a discussion about whether the lyching actually happened or not ~~at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know#Lynching_of_Wilbur_Little and~~ on the talkpage. Mujinga (talk) 08:56, 27 July 2020 (UTC)