Template:Did you know nominations/Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church

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 Allen3 ^talk 17:39, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church

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• ... that the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (pictured) in Charleston, South Carolina, cofounded by Denmark Vesey, got burned down in 1822 after his plan for a slave revolt leaked?

• ALT1:... that after an earthquake, Grover Cleveland donated ten dollars to the reconstruction of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church (pictured) in Charleston, South Carolina?
• Reviewed: Alfred Bog
• Comment: Joint nomination on behalf of User:Raymie, User:Dreamyshade and User:BrillLyle, principal editors and expanders of this article. As this article is currently linked from In the News, the DYK should be held back until after the Charleston church shooting disappears from the main page. User:Dreamyshade suggested the main hook, while ALT1 is mine. ALT1 is cited to reference number 16, which is sourced from an academic database. QPQ is also mine.

Created by ParkerHiggins (talk), Dreamyshade (talk), BrillLyle (talk), and Raymie (talk). Nominated by Raymie (talk) at 07:50, 20 June 2015 (UTC).

• (This is not a review) I also included User:Dreamyshade and User:BrillLyle in the DYK attribution per the above. Epic Genius (talk) 18:49, 20 June 2015 (UTC)

• This article is plenty big enough, correct people credited, and new enough. The article is referenced throughout. Mostly appears to be neutrally written. However there is a mention of a white supremacist burning the church, but I see no support of that in the references. Also the bit about the Confederate Home seems to be irrelevant to this article. For the main hook it is just short enough, in the article, referenced and supported by references. alt1 is unconfirmable by me so I will not confirm if it is confirmed. Picture is free, and also confirmed on Flickr. QPQ was done. Several spot checks show no copyright infringement. Good to go with original hook. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 09:13, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

• I was going to promote this to the Prep area but decided that the sentence in the article to which the original hook refers is not neutral and is not supported by the source. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:23, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

• User:Dreamyshade suggested the first hook, so I'm pinging her on that front. How does ALT1 look? Raymie (t • c) 21:35, 6 July 2015 (UTC)

• Reinstating tick as ALT1 is fine, and the source that supported it also supported the original hook, so I have added an extra reference to the sentence about "white supremacists" and now either hook will do. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:23, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks User:Cwmhiraeth for improving that, and thanks User:Raymie for following up on this! I think the Vesey story helps convey the uniqueness of this church, and it's nice to center a person who was involved in it as a leader. Dreamyshade (talk) 07:58, 10 July 2015 (UTC)