Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman

Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman[edit]

This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/February 27, 2017 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:45, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Henry Hoʻolulu Pitman (1845–1863) was among a group of more than one hundred Native Hawaiian and Hawaii-born combatants who fought in the American Civil War while the Kingdom of Hawaii was still an independent nation. Born in Hilo, Hawaii, to a merchant from Massachusetts and Hawaiian chiefess Kinoʻoleoliliha, he returned to the United States for his education. He enlisted in the Union Army, as a private, without his family's knowledge. Despite being mixed-race, he avoided the racial segregation imposed on other Hawaiian recruits and was assigned to a white regiment. He fought in the Battle of Antietam and the Maryland Campaign and befriended later Civil War historian Robert G. Carter. On the march to Fredericksburg, he was captured by Confederate guerrilla forces and incarcerated in Libby Prison, where he contracted "lung fever" from the harsh conditions of his imprisonment. He died on February 27, 1863, after his release on parole in a prisoner exchange. Modern historians consider Pitman to be the only known Pacific Islander to die as a prisoner of war in the Civil War. His legacy has sparked renewed interest in the role Hawaiians played during the American Civil War. (Full article...)

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Main editors: KAVEBEAR
Promoted: July 18, 2016
Reasons for nomination: ~~February 27 is the anniversary of his death date.~~ February 27 is the anniversary of the day he died
Support as nominator. KAVEBEAR (talk) 04:13, 14 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support, although I would recommend the reason be changed to "February 27 is the anniversary of the day he died". Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 12:56, 17 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Besides the article, the image is also of good quality for the main page. — Maile (talk) 17:38, 18 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support appropriate to subject and date. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:35, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ceoil (talk) 11:10, 22 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support appropriate reason for the date. Aoba47 (talk) 17:40, 23 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Why don't we wait to 18 March, his birthday? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:56, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I did think about that but only if this date didn't pass. Either one is fine, but I chose the death date because it was closer and since he is significant for his death (as the only Pacific Islander to die a prisoner in the Civil War as far Hawaii Civil War historians are concerned). He is generally seen as a tragic figure who died young and the date of death seemed more appropriate given the nature of his life. --KAVEBEAR (talk) 23:42, 28 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Understand. Will you shorten the blurb yourself? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:13, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Can you suggest areas to cut and I can give me opinions on it? This does fall within the character limit and no other users have brought up the length as a problem thus far. --KAVEBEAR (talk) 22:27, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I read it as 1.4k, while 1.2 is wanted. You will know better what to cut. I would start with the repetition of his death in the eyes of the historians. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:58, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Gerda Arendt: Hmmm, I thought I had the character was 1500. Don't know why. It's now down to 1189 characters. --KAVEBEAR (talk) 23:28, 2 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Support (1500 is for DYK minimum article length.) --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:47, 3 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]