Template:Did you know nominations/Le Mulâtre


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 10:00, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

Le Mulâtre

 * ... that "The Mulatto" by Victor Séjour of New Orleans, published in 1837, is the earliest known short story by an African-American writer?


 * Comment: The article was created under its original French title, but we might consider whether it should be moved to the English title
 * Comment: The article was created under its original French title, but we might consider whether it should be moved to the English title

5x expanded by Cynwolfe (talk). Self-nominated at 14:54, 11 June 2015 (UTC).


 * Comment, not a formal review: the references are a bit hard to well, reference, which may inhibit verification and checking for paraphrasing, etc. References like "Wester, African American Gothic, p. 90." for instance, do not mention year, publisher, edition, etc., and one must search the references to find the sole mention of "Maisha L. Wester, African American Gothic: Screams from Shadowed Places (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)". I would recommend listing all repeated sources in full below the notes, ideally with Harvard citation or similar to easily pair short ref to full ref. And if any content is available online, links would help (as would ISBN, doi, etc.). --Animalparty-- (talk) 03:23, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I have time at present to do that, and I'm fairly sure all the content is available in Google preview—though that can vary depending on where you are, and I had full access to the sources through a university. If you do a Google Books search with author and title as given in any note, there should be no obstacle to finding the references. Afaik, there's no requirement that a DYK article have its footnotes formatted in a particular way, and a full citation for each source is given in the first ref. Having already gone through this process to write the article, I should think it preferable that a another editor do fact-checking and check on accessibility outside the system within which I worked. Cynwolfe (talk) 00:55, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg This article is a fivefold expansion and is new enough and long enough. The hook fact has an inline citation to an off-line source and is accepted in good faith. The image is in the public domain and the article is neutral, but I was unable to check for copyright and close-paraphrasing issues because of lack of access to the sources. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 07:42, 9 July 2015 (UTC)