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USS Ozark (1863)

 * ... that the ironclad river monitor Ozark transported Federal troops and New Orleans police attempting to apprehend the white supremacists who killed a large number of blacks during the Colfax Massacre in 1873?
 * Reviewed: Het Vrije Woord

5x expanded by Sturmvogel 66 (talk). Self nominated at 20:22, 15 February 2013 (UTC).


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Size, age, and expansion all check out. The sourcing is excellent; I will AGF on the hook because of the book cite. -- Guerillero &#124;  My Talk  20:12, 16 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Symbol possible vote.svg Not only is the hook too long at 206 characters, but the article phrase that was used for the hook is from the lede and not cited. The source citation in the article body is after a sentence that does not mention the large number of blacks that were killed, a key hook fact. Although it is best to have all text in the lede echoed in body of the article, DYK usually doesn't insist on it. However, the hook material must be properly cited wherever it is, and "a large number of" is quite vague and (if the Colfax Massacre article is accurate) ought to be made less vague, as I thought maybe 10 to 15 until I saw the article and realized that scholarly estimates are at over five dozen. (Congress was told over 100.) BlueMoonset (talk) 16:35, 17 February 2013 (UTC)


 * ALT1: that in 1873, the ironclad river monitor Ozark transported Federal troops and New Orleans police attempting to apprehend the perpetrators of the Colfax Massacre? Gatoclass (talk) 17:16, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * If Sturmvogel 66 is okay with the new hook, it looks fine (and supported) to me. BlueMoonset (talk) 18:25, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * OK by me.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 20:06, 17 February 2013 (UTC)