Template:Did you know nominations/Bertha McNeill

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The result was: promoted by BorgQueen (talk) 15:45, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

Bertha McNeill

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• ... that peace activist Bertha McNeill is remembered for linking peace to freedom? Source: peace and freedom]
  • ALT1: ... that African American peace activist Bertha McNeill was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first Black women's intercollegiate sorority in the United States? Source: peace activist] and fifty-year member of Alpha Kappa Alpha
  • ALT2: ... that African American peace activist Bertha McNeill served as the national vice president of the US branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom? Source: National vice president 1948,1949 and 1953
  • ALT3 ... that Bertha McNeill challenged policies of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom which excluded Black women from full membership in the organization? Source: "McNeill expressed her disapproval of the fact that in some branches, black women were members of the Interracial Committee without being members of WILPF. This practice would not promote integration, and McNeill reminded branches that individuals needed to be members of the larger organization to serve on a committee". p 76
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Coli Saco
  • Comment: Could be held for March 8 International Women's day. Probably too late to be a February article for BHM in the US. Welcome other hook ideas.

Thanks for nominating her Bruxton. You're a lot faster than me. Can we credit GRuban and Ipigott too, I rely on their help for almost every article I write. SusunW (talk) 19:46, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Yes done Bruxton (talk) 19:52, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

And I added the credit templates, so they'll receive their credits when this hits the Main Page. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 19:21, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Improved to Good Article status by SusunW (talk), GRuban (talk), and Ipigott (talk). Nominated by Bruxton (talk) at 19:26, 21 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Bertha McNeill; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Lovely article, so fun to read about a woman I didn't know who worked for Peace and Freedom. I thought that ALT was rather weak; my personal favorite is ALT3. I copied a citation for that fact to a relevant sentence to meet the DYK cite-the-sentence requirement. ALT2 could be more interesting if it included that she was elected for at least five terms. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 15:25, 17 March 2023 (UTC)