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Alberta Schenck Adams
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 * ... that when teenage Alberta Schenck (pictured) took a stand against segregation in Alaska, her actions were a full decade before either Rosa Parks's stand or the Brown v. Board of Education decision?
 * Reviewed: E-class Melbourne tram

Created/expanded by Maile66 (talk). Self nom at 01:54, 10 July 2012 (UTC)




 * Symbol confirmed.svg New enough and long enough. Article is fully supported by inline citations. image has fair use rationale. Article is neutral enough.  Plagiarism spot check shows now cause for concern. QPQ done.
 * Symbol question.svg "Alaska's legislation, and Alberta Schenck Adams' part in it, happened a decade before some landmark events and legislation in the civil rights movement. Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 outlawed segregated schools in the United States" is sourced to this, which does not talk about "Alaska's legislation, and Alberta Schenck Adams' part in it".  The hooked material is not supported by inline citations supporting the text.  Sourcing needs to be better to show this, because it kind of reads a bit like WP:NPOV and SP:SYNTH to promote Alberta Schenck as being important with out contextualising this against sources.  (Is it true?  Probably almost certainly but sources are not supporting it.) --LauraHale (talk) 05:21, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Also, newworldencyclopedia is reliable as a wiki? --LauraHale (talk) 05:24, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Withdrawing the nomination Maile66 (talk) 10:54, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * On second thought, let's keep the nomination and see how the article can be improved:
 * Good catch on New World Encyclopedia. That's been changed.
 * I'd like a second opinion on the image in the article, and whether or not it can be used with DYK. I didn't put it in the article.  Good as it is, it's not from Commons.
 * I've reworded the lead in the article to avoid POV.
 * Maile66 (talk) 12:50, 10 July 2012 (UTC)


 * "Alaska's legislation, and Alberta Schenck Adams' part in it, happened a decade before some landmark events and legislation in the civil rights movement. Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 outlawed segregated schools in the United States." is not supported by the source. :( A search of the source for the person's name gives me zero results.  Which page in the source talk about Alberta Schenck Adams?  In fact "Alaska's legislation, and Alberta Schenck Adams' part in it, happened a decade before some landmark events and legislation in the civil rights movement. Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 outlawed segregated schools in the United States.[3] In 1955, Rosa Parks's actions in refusing to give up her public bus seat to a white person resulted in a boycott in Alabama.[2]" feels like POV pushing because the sources do not talk about the topic of the article at all. This material feels like it would be best placed in "Death and legacy" to avoid POV pushing, and where sources clearly linked Alberta Adams to Rosa Parks. Alaska wasn't a state at the time she did this.  Connection feels tenuous and not supported by sources in the article.  Why not "a full two decades before Indigenous Australians were given the right to vote?"  All you have to do is move it to legacy, find a linking source between the two concepts, cite it and we would be good to go.  --LauraHale (talk) 13:21, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Working on it. Thanks for the help. And by the way, while Alaska wasn't a state, it was a territory of the United States. Maile66 (talk) 13:42, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * OK, have another look at it. I completely agree that it's much better explained as part of the legacy, and with supporting references. Maile66 (talk) 14:40, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for spending the time on this to get it done better. :) I'm much more comfortable passing this now. :) --LauraHale (talk) 00:09, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Hooray! And thank you, for helping to make this a better article. Maile66 (talk) 00:21, 11 July 2012 (UTC)