Template:Did you know nominations/National Registry of Exonerations

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The result was: promoted by Allen3 ^talk 17:06, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

National Registry of Exonerations

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• ... that among the 1,018 cases listed on Samuel R. Gross's National Registry of Exonerations are examples of people who were falsely accused, mistakenly identified, or confessed to crimes they did not commit?

Created/expanded by Lawnaut (talk). Self-nomination.

• Hook is verified as are other claims in the article. Topic is notable and the article was expanded on 18 November from a redirect to "Innocence project—which the article is not copied from. 3000+ characters. It's just about ready to go, but the hook is a little too long at 205 characters. I might suggest something like:

• Alt1 ... that among the 1,018 cases listed on Samuel R. Gross's National Registry of Exonerations are people who were falsely accused, mistakenly identified, or confessed to crimes they did not commit?

• Thank you for your work on this interesting article. groupuscule (talk) 01:21, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

• groupuscule, since you're only deleting the words "examples of" from the original hook, changing the facts or meaning of the hook not at all, I think you can finish the review of this nomination with the slightly shortened hook. BlueMoonset (talk) 06:59, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

• OK, let's run it. groupuscule (talk) 09:27, 6 December 2012 (UTC)