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Poor People's Campaign

 * ... that 3000 people lived on Washington's National Mall (pictured) for six weeks in 1968 as part of the Poor People's Campaign?
 * Alt 1 ... that several thousand people lived on Washington's National Mall (pictured) for six weeks in 1968 as part of the Poor People's Campaign?
 * Reviewed: Pyxis
 * Comment: It's a great picture, worth including; not sure that the "pictured" is in the right place in the hook.

Created/expanded by Groupuscule (talk). Self nom at 01:56, 8 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol delete vote.svg Fails to meet 5x expansion (841 to 3898 characters), hook is not directly cited, and the article as a whole is incompletely cited. --Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 19:06, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Almost forgot, it's not assessed either.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 19:23, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Symbol possible vote.svg The article is very close to being 5x expanded. The number of prose characters was 5,228 on September 9, the edit immediately prior to the expansion on October 4, and is currently 24,872; it needs to be 26,140 prose characters for a full 5x expansion, which means adding only 1,268 new prose characters to the article as it is. Sturmvogel 66 is correct that the article's hook needs a direct citation, and the body of the article needs the 3000 fact, six week fact, and the rest, all cited in the body at the end of each relevant sentence. The article also needs more citations as a whole: DYK requires at least one citation per article paragraph. There is, however, no requirement that the article be assessed by any WikiProject; the requirement is simply that the article is not assessed as a Stub, and this article is certainly not a stub by any definition I know. I hope you can make the (comparatively small) expansion and add the necessary citations to support hook and article. Good luck! BlueMoonset (talk) 04:21, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, thank you for your confidence BlueMoonset. I misjudged the size of the expansion, because I forgot that the (fairly extensive) "Committee of 100" section would not be counted if it was formatted as a list. No matter—more text can easily be added. On the topic of citations: I feel that the article as a whole is well cited, with one or two references for every sentence, let alone paragraph. However, I will be sure find direct citations for the hook claims rather than forcing the reader to search around for them. Thanks to both of you for your attention. groupuscule (talk) 22:18, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm glad that you can add some extra text, but please also remember that each paragraph (and you have a lot of very short paragraphs) needs to be cited to meet DYK standards.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:38, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
 * DYKCheck prose count: 26159 characters... and I hope it keeps growing. More citations added with particular attention to the hook. Since there is no way to prove that 3000 people were there the whole time, I have introduced a modification to the hook. I hope these changes please! groupuscule (talk) 18:38, 18 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol redirect vote4.png New review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:15, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Good to go, alt hook preferred.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 04:29, 21 October 2012 (UTC)