Talk:Court-martial of William T. Colman

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Did you know... that the court-martial of William T. Colman, the commander of a U.S. air base, created a storm of protest when he was merely reduced in rank after shooting a black soldier?

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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 Theleekycauldron (talk) 22:15, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the court-martial of William T. Colman, commander of a U.S. air base, created a storm of protest when he was merely reduced in rank after shooting a black soldier? Source: Here ("The verdict raised such a storm of protest that a review of the court martial proceedings was ordered by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson."). Also here (calling the verdict merely reducing his rank "equivalent to acquittal")
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Created by Cbl62 (talk). Self-nominated at 15:50, 30 August 2022 (UTC).[reply]

sources, length, hook check out. Maybe reword hook slightly for better flow but that’s a stylistic judgement call. Volunteer Marek 19:59, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

One possible concern, though I don’t think this should disqualify the nomination, is that the article is based mostly on primary, contemporaneous sources - it’d be good to find some more recent secondary sources that cover the subject. Volunteer Marek 20:03, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Victim[edit]

What happened to McRae? Volunteer Marek 20:00, 3 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]