Talk:W. E. B. Du Bois

Semi-protected edit request on 14 February 2024
Du Bois did not attend Searles High School as stated in the entry (without citation). Instead, he attended Great Barrington High School as stated in the corrections section of this article: https://theberkshireedge.com/berkshire-hotel-project-at-former-searles-school-may-go-forward-this-year/ Du Bois would have been about 30 years old when Searles opened in 1898. Sgraulty (talk) 15:36, 14 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Please change "He graduated from the town's Searles High School." to "He graduated from Great Barrington High School in June 1884 at the age of 15" with the citations: https://www.duboisnhs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/DuBoisGBBrochureMap-1.pdf and https://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/web-dubois
 * Add in the image of his high school graduating class: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/66a9dc30-19f4-9e2b-e040-e00a18061c88 Sgraulty (talk) 18:39, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done for now: Given the three quality sources provided in-article as support for the high school graduation information, we should probably evaluate this proposed change by taking into account more sourcing than the two provided here (one is a pamphlet and the other is apparently a reprint of a different tertiary source, neither of which indicates where its information about his secondary schooling is coming from).
 * For the image request, please make your request for a new image to be uploaded to Files For Upload. Once the file has been properly uploaded, feel free to reactivate this request to have the new image used.
 * --Pinchme123 (talk) 02:11, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I have found more resources for his graduation from Great Barrington High School including a photo of his senior class, diploma and a letter her wrote to the students of Great Barrington High School indicating he graduated from there in 1884, all from the WEB Du Bois Papers collection of UMass Amherst. That collection contains additional primary sources indicating he graduated from Great Barrington High School. Separately, a collection at Fisk University, an article in The Atlantic, The Du Bois Center website, as well as an entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy all indicate he graduated from Great Barrington High School.
 * I'm unable to do the work on the image at the moment, so will leave that for someone else or another time. Thank you. Sgraulty (talk) 03:08, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
 * @Pinchme123 I'm wondering if there is anything I can/need to do in order to move this edit forward. I've found additional evidence, but am of course willing to do more. I'm just new to this process. Sgraulty (talk) 00:06, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello Sgraulty. I am not in a position at the moment to evaluate edit requests, however I am sure others are working through the request queues. If you feel you are ready to again request this edit with reliable sources that outweigh the ones which already exist in the article, feel free to either re-open this request (by changing the "answered=" parameter at the top of this section back to "no"), or create a new edit request at the bottom of this Talk page. --Pinchme123 (talk) 00:56, 12 July 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ I've changed the school and added several of your citations. The previous claim on this article was unsourced and of the two sources on Searles High School (Great Barrington, Massachusetts), one doesn't mention the school and the second doesn't actually say Du Bois went there. – macaddct1984 (talk &#124; contribs) 13:23, 16 July 2024 (UTC)

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If Du Bois was born in 1868, wouldn't all black people be free? 2601:249:1900:C3C0:2EFF:248C:9250:1D2 (talk) 11:18, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 June 2024
William Henry Dorsey is mentioned as collecting articles from the 18th century, change 18th century to 19th century. 172.97.149.228 (talk) 04:59, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Charliehdb (talk) 12:21, 8 June 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ I corrected 18th→19th as per WP:OBVIOUS. Since William Henry Dorsey was born in 1837, he could not have been collecting in the 18th century. Peaceray (talk) 17:43, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 20 June 2024
Change link to "John Brown" biography in "Selected Works" from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(Biography) to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(biography). Saranrapjs (talk) 12:03, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅   [[User:CanonNi ]]  (talk • contribs) 12:09, 20 June 2024 (UTC)