Talk:Margaret Mercer
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Amkgp in topic Did you know nomination
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Did you know nomination
edit- 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 Amkgp (talk) 05:50, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
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- ... that American abolitionist Margaret Mercer freed the slaves that she inherited from her father, Maryland governor John Francis Mercer, and sent six of them to Liberia?
Created by SL93 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:22, 12 August 2020 (UTC).
Hi, this hook caught my eye. Article is new enough and long enough. But it is not adequately sourced; usually we allow one or two sources for obscure topics like fossils, but Google Books lists a number of books that mention her, as well as her memoir which is not mentioned in the article. Hook refs verified and cited inline. QPQ done. Image in article is freely licensed. Yoninah (talk) 15:08, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- Yoninah I added more sources and content. I mentioned the memoir, but I didn't source content from it because it is difficult for me with how long it is and how it is written. I did notice while looking through the Google Books sources that some of them are repastes of the memoir, unimportant court cases, about Margaret Mercer Elphinstone, and small mentions that don't help. SL93 (talk) 17:37, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Thank you for the new refs. I meant that you might be able to extract details from the memoir; in the meantime, I moved it to a Bibliography section. Here is the rest of the review: Neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 18:18, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- Yoninah I'm glad that the hook caught your eye. I didn't know anything about her until I did research after seeing her name in a Woman In Red red list. SL93 (talk) 20:02, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
- That's great! I meant it was well-written. Yoninah (talk) 20:07, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
