Template:Did you know nominations/Voting Rights Act of 1965


 * The following discussion 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 Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 06:43, 27 March 2014 (UTC)

Voting Rights Act of 1965

 * ... that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 allows federal courts to order certain state and local governments to have changes to their election laws preapproved by the United States federal government?
 * Comment: My first DYK nomination. The hook derives from the first few sentences in the "bail in" section.
 * Comment: My first DYK nomination. The hook derives from the first few sentences in the "bail in" section.

Improved to Good Article status by Prototime (talk). Self nominated at 06:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC).


 * It did appear as part of DYK in 2004. That would be ten years ago. However, it may not have been the main article: some editor un-bolded it, leaving "Literacy test" as the main article of the DYK ten years ago. The bot added "DYK talk" in its talk page, but it used the version with "two" bolded targets in lieu of other version with one bolded target. George Ho (talk) 07:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Interesting. When the bot added the relevant "DYK talk" template to Talk:Literacy test (diff), only literacy test was indicated as the main article. This seems to reflect the final version as it appeared on DYK (Recent_additions/2004/May), in which "Voting Rights Act of 1965" was not bold and only "literacy test" was indicated as the qualifying article. I think this favors the interpretation that "Voting Rights Act of 1965" was not the qualifying DYK article back then, but I'll leave that call up to everyone else. –Prototime (talk · contribs) 22:11, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Upon further investigation, it appears that "Voting Rights Act of 1965" did not qualify for the DYK back on May 21, 2004. The article was created in 2002, and it was not expanded 5-fold (or significantly expanded at all) by May 21, 2004. However, "literacy test" did qualify for DYK at the time because that article was created on May 20, 2004, the day before. Thus, it appears the link to "Voting Rights Act of 1965" in the DYK should never have been bolded to begin with, which is likely why a user correctly unbolded it for the final version. Later on, apparently the bot erroneously selected the initial bolded version when it posted the "DYK talk" template on Talk:Voting Rights Act of 1965, but the bot did select the correct, final version of the DYK when it posted the template on Talk:Literacy test. –Prototime (talk · contribs) 17:44, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Actually, there were no rules of DYK at that time. WP:DYK was created in 2005, not 2004. And the talk page (currently named Wikipedia talk:Did you know/Archive 1) was... just talking at that time. Gh87 in the public computer (talk) 21:24, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
 * In that case, I hope a reviewer will, after taking all of the above points into consideration, determine that this article is eligible for DYK. Though I'm starting to doubt that will happen anytime soon :-/ –Prototime (talk · contribs) 03:30, 15 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Symbol redirect vote 4.svg  Since this is recorded as not completing the time on the DYK main page (though a diff as to why it was delinked would be useful), and the article is really good already, I think we can IAR safely here. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 02:59, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Date, length and hook all OK. QPQ not needed. Good to go. I will note that on the talk page it does list a DYK credit from 2004 yet it also links the nomination page to this page for some reason.  The C of E God Save the Queen!  ( talk ) 17:39, 26 March 2014 (UTC)