Template:Did you know nominations/Charles H. Mahoney
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Charles H. Mahoney
- ... that Charles H. Mahoney was the first African American to serve as a delegate to the United Nations? Source: New York Times
Created by Coffee (talk). Self-nominated at 18:58, 1 December 2019 (UTC).
- In-depth review of article in progress. Article was nominated the same day of creation, has 2000+ bytes of prose, has an interesting and cited hook plus a QPQ. The cited hook is behind a paywall, so I'll have to AGF it. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:06, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
- @MrLinkinPark333: I have access to NY Times. The source says "first American Negro delegate to the United Nations". epicgenius (talk) 22:03, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
- On a side note, is there a need to say
the first African American from the United States
in the article? I think the focus is that he is the first US delegate to the UN that is African American. epicgenius (talk) 22:05, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
I've requested the three NYT sources at the Resource Exchange. The one that is cited is used multiple times, so it's no longer just for the lead. Otherwise, there are issues with this article:
- Detroit Free Press doesn't specify which of his parents was a contractor, so I can't assume it was his father.
- Worldcat doesn't state in the listing he went to grade school in Decatur.
Note: - not yet done. - Times Herald said his speech was the best the college ever had at the time, not Mahoney himself.
- Worldcat doesn't have Fisk University in the listing. Note: - not yet done.
- The acquittals in 1926 were for the Sweets only. The previous year resulted in the mistrial of the other defendants, not acquittals.
- Detroit Free Press doesn't specifiy Fitzgerald was the 36th Governor, just governor.
- The 1936 News-Palladium source says he lost the Democratic nomination, and has no mention of the House of Representatives. Note: - not yet done.
- Close paraphrasing of Detroit Free Press for the Great Lakes Mutual Insurance part.
Not sure
I'm waiting on the three NYT times sources to check the rest. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 22:24, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
@MrLinkinPark333: Thanks for that in-depth review... I'm a bit rusty coming back from a long break from the project so some errors were to be expected. I've fixed everything listed (and some were nicely fixed before I got to the article this morning with a source addition by RFD (talk · contribs)), so it should be good to go now. — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 16:47, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
- @Coffee: I'll leave this for someone else to fully recheck as I no longer have access to newspapers.com. The main things I see leftover are the above points plus:
- The word "eventually" needs to be dropped per WP:EDITORIALIZING for neutrality in "The case eventually ended with Sweet's acquittal"
- There are also references that do not back up some of the claims while also having issues of WP:REFBOMB.
Otherwise, the hook is fine as I was sent a copy of the article in the Resource Exchange. --MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 21:48, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
- I think I've fully resolved those issues now. Thanks for your assistance on this one! — Coffee // have a ☕️ // beans // 00:03, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
- I think I've fully resolved those issues now. Thanks for your assistance on this one!
