Talk:Miriam DeCosta-Willis

A fact from Miriam DeCosta-Willis appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 June 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that after being denied admission to Memphis State University because of her race, Miriam DeCosta-Willis went on to become the university's first African-American professor?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by Desertarun (talk) 08:49, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that after being denied admission to Memphis State University because of her race, Miriam DeCosta-Willis went on to become the university's first African American professor? Source: "In 1966, she was hired to teach Spanish at Memphis State University, where she had been denied admission less than a decade earlier, becoming the school's first Black faculty member" ([1])

Created by Bookworm-ce (talk). Self-nominated at 22:10, 11 May 2021 (UTC).[reply]

New enough and long enough. QPQ check finds only three previous DYKs, so QPQ not needed. A previous version (from long ago) was deleted as a copyvio, and Earwig gave an unusually high score of matches against one source (47.9% similarity, https://www.memphislibrary.org/miriam-decosta-willis-1934-2021/) but it all looked like very short phrases or book titles rather than problematic copying to me. The article is well-sourced, and the supplied source for the hook (which is interesting and within rules) checks out, but DYK rules require that the sentence in the article containing the hook claim have a footnote with the source. I made that one minor change, after which I think this is good to go. —David Eppstein (talk) 05:42, 12 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]