Wikipedia:Peer review/Black Seminoles/archive1

Black Seminoles[edit]

This is the first Wikipedia entry I've created, and it's on a subject I enjoy bringing to public attention. I would like the article to be as good as it can be. Austinbirdman 13:56, 31 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Very good article! So good that I'm afraid I can't help you improve it further. Hope someone else can. But since I liked it so much and it's new, I have suggested it for the Did You Know section on the Main Page. So, with some luck, you'll get the subject's attention by the article appearing there soon ;-). Shanes 07:29, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the "Did You Know" suggestion and the kind words. 128.83.166.190 14:26, 1 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

One suggestion. I would appreciate a bit more on the recent Seminole exclusion. The New York Times Magazine recently did a big article on it and it sounded like a bigger and more interesting deal than the one sentence on it in the current article makes it out to be. In particular, that the exclusion is based on a certain U.S. census which specifically did not count freedmen, and that many modern descendants from freedmen are attempting to use DNA testing as a way of establishing their legal and biological links. I think a special section on this would really add to the article — after such a long history, to be excluded for monetary reasons based on a racist census is, well, a bit interesting, is it not? But that's my only real suggestion. --Fastfission 14:09, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

That's a good suggestion. There's a WIRED story on the DNA exclusion. I'll try to add more detail on that, along with some 20th century background. Austinbirdman 16:09, 2 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Consider shrinking the References and Endnotes section, like this article here. --maclean25 00:01, 5 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]