Template:Did you know nominations/Robert Coles (settler) (2nd nomination)


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:37, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Robert Coles (settler)

 * ... that in 1633 the Massachusetts Bay settler Robert Coles was sentenced to wear a scarlet D for a year, which inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter?
 * ALT1: ... that the Massachusetts Bay settler Robert Coles was sentenced to wear a red "D" for drunkenness, later inspiring Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter? Source: Beers, Henry Augustin (1895). Initial Studies in American Letters. G.W. Jacobs
 * Comment: Re-opening nomination due to GA, trying to keep a bot from removing it

Improved to Good Article status by Diogenes99 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:58, 22 April 2019 (UTC).
 * Congrats on bringing this to GA! :) This was still on my watchlist from last time you nominated it, so I was glad to see it again. :)
 * Symbol question.svg Promoted to GA within the last 7 days, so length/newness ok, no major policy issues. As for the hook, it's "hooky," but I've added an ALT1 for these reasons: add context for what the D means, change from "scarlet" to "red" since that seems to be what's in the text, link the colony. Also a copyedit to, among other reasons, ensure the new version isn't any longer than the original (which is on the longer side, but not too long). The hook is cited. The source isn't linked, so I can't verify it myself, but I think we can AGF. QPQ isn't necessary as it's one of the nominator's first 5 nominations.
 * I think we're just about good to go here. Thoughts on ALT1, ? &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 22:48, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * BTW I just posted Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know because I'm not sure if there's a particular procedure to renominate something. Probably not a big deal. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 22:51, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I like ALT1. Diogenes99 (talk) 22:59, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Symbol voting keep.svg - good to go. (though it looks like we'll need to figure out moving the page -- will require an admin to preserve the history, though). &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 04:26, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Just noting for anyone who may be unclear on this: has gone ahead and fixed this issue. This nomination is GTG. &mdash;  Rhododendrites  talk \\ 15:45, 10 May 2019 (UTC)