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A fact from Michael Figures appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 May 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Thomas Figures prosecuted two members of the Ku Klux Klan for murder, and Michael Figures bankrupted their organization in a civil lawsuit?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Figures.

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Did you know nomination

Latest comment: 6 months ago6 comments3 people in discussion

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 PrimalMustelid talk 00:54, 3 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

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... that Thomas Figures prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan and Michael Figures bankrupted it?
- ALT1: ... that Thomas Figures prosecuted two members of the Ku Klux Klan for murder and Michael Figures bankrupted their organization in a civil lawsuit?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Rost (Tashkent newspaper) and Template:Did you know nominations/Dick Harris (center)
- Comment: These hooks pertain to the lynching of Michael Donald, where assistant district attorney Thomas Figures secured two murder convictions and state senator and attorney Michael Figures (along with Morris Dees) litigated a civil suit that bankrupted the United Klans of America. Thomas is a new article but Michael is a 5x expansion.

Created by Muboshgu (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 529 past nominations.

Post-promotion hook changes will be logged on the talk page; consider watching the nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.

– Muboshgu (talk) 00:25, 13 April 2024 (UTC). Both articles:Reply

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems: - I would go with ALT1. ALT0 might cause issues at WP:ERRORS because technically it was only two KKK members who were prosecuted, not the whole group.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Muboshgu: Nice work. Everything looks good except for the QPQ. Epicgenius (talk) 14:10, 16 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

Epicgenius, it's harder to do reviews now with backlog mode. I've started the review on Template:Did you know nominations/Dick Harris (center) to complete the QPQ. ALT0 is more fun, but less, uh, precise. – Muboshgu (talk) 03:24, 17 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
- Epicgenius, QPQs are done. – Muboshgu (talk) 17:41, 26 April 2024 (UTC)Reply
  - Looks good to go. Epicgenius (talk) 17:57, 26 April 2024 (UTC)Reply

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