A fact from John Lyman Smith appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 July 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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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) 22:04, 1 July 2019 (UTC)Reply
Comment: This article was moved from to the mainspace from my sandbox on May 29, 2019.
Created by Skyes(BYU) (talk). Self-nominated at 17:59, 30 May 2019 (UTC).Reply
This article is new enough and long enough. The ALT1 hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright or plagiarism issues. I don't like ALT0 because it reminds me of the Israelites being led across the Red Sea. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:35, 17 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
Maybe a little more description in the hook, like who he is, would make ALT1 hookier. Yoninah (talk) 21:24, 1 July 2019 (UTC)Reply
@Skyes(BYU): yes, thank you. Restoring tick per Cwmhiraeth's review. I'm promoting this, but please add an infobox to this and other biographical articles that you write. Yoninah (talk) 22:03, 1 July 2019 (UTC)Reply
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Article has two different dates of death, February 21, 1898 and February 27, 1893, ie different days and different years. When I checked ref 2 Hardy, I also noticed a different year of birth, 1823 instead of 1828. JennyOz (talk) 11:37, 9 July 2019 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for pointing that out. The consensus death date is February 21, 1898 among various sources. Hardy is the only source which appears to have a different death date. I have changed the date to reflect the majority of sources. Skyes(BYU) (talk) 18:33, 9 July 2019 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for checking and tweaking. JennyOz (talk) 18:46, 11 July 2019 (UTC)Reply
This article is new enough and long enough. The ALT1 hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright or plagiarism issues. I don't like ALT0 because it reminds me of the Israelites being led across the Red Sea. A QPQ has been done. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:35, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
Maybe a little more description in the hook, like who he is, would make ALT1 hookier. Yoninah (talk) 21:24, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
@Skyes(BYU): yes, thank you. Restoring tick per Cwmhiraeth's review. I'm promoting this, but please add an infobox to this and other biographical articles that you write. Yoninah (talk) 22:03, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
