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Black Codes (United States)

 * Hook1... that Mississippi prohibited black and white Americans from assembling "on terms of equality"?
 * Reviewed: Several pending, including Purple Toupee.
 * Comment: There have been a lot of submissions from around this time period recently, and it would be fine to delay this hook if people feel they ought to be spaced out more. Alternatives:
 * Hook2 ... that Kentucky's 1866 black code outlawed "rambling without a job" and "keeping a disorderly house" as examples of vagrancy?
 * Hook3 ... that according to an observer from the Freedmen's Bureau, Louisiana recycled its old laws in 1865, "with the word 'slave' expunged, and 'Negro' substituted"?

Created/expanded by Groupuscule (talk). Self nominated at 17:44, 9 July 2013 (UTC).


 * Symbol voting keep.svg Paper references are good but they necessitate this template (for hooks 2 and 3). No offence. :) Expansion is ~5.6x. I like hook 1, then 2, then 3, in terms of interestingness. There are some dead links but none that affects its eligibility. Good work, btw. :) Sceptre (talk) 23:08, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol possible vote.svg The two dead links need to be removed or replaced. An article on the main page should not have dead links. SL93 (talk) 01:56, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Deleted those links, there didn't seem to be much use for them. Sceptre, glad you liked the article! The sources for hooks 2 & 3 should be accessible to anyone over the web. Aloha, groupuscule (talk) 05:19, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg, I forgot this. Since my only problem was fixed, the original review stands. SL93 (talk) 02:21, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * It looks like the issue's resolved, but I wanted to note in passing that dead links are not a problem for an article on the main page, nor for any article. Insisting on their removal is actually itself against policy, per WP:LINKROT: "Do not delete cited information solely because the URL to the source does not work any longer. WP:Verifiability does not require that all information be supported by a working link, nor does it require the source to be published online." Cheers, -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:26, 11 July 2013 (UTC)