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A fact from Just Mercy (book) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 January 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the memoir Just Mercy tells the story of an innocent black man who was convicted and condemned to die for the 1986 murder of a young white woman in the town in which To Kill a Mockingbird was written?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Just Mercy (book).

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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 SL93 (talk) 16:48, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Stevenson in 2012

... that the memoir Just Mercy tells the story of an innocent black man who was convicted and condemned to die for the 1986 murder of a young white woman in the town To Kill a Mockingbird was written? Source: Many
- ALT1:... that the 2014 memoir Just Mercy tells the story of an innocent black man who was condemned to die for the 1986 murder of a young white woman in the same town Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird? Source: Many

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology

Moved to mainspace by Footlessmouse (talk). Self-nominated at 18:04, 26 December 2020 (UTC).[reply]

QPQ done. Article is sufficiently sourced and plenty long enough. The copyvio issues raised by Earwig are properly attributed, non-excessive quotations. Hook is interesting and verifiable. Disgraceful as it is that no article was created for six years on a currently-230-times NYT bestseller, the article is indeed sufficiently new. Excellent work on this one. Good to go! — Bilorv (talk) 22:10, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ALT0 approved that is, forgot to specify. — Bilorv (talk) 10:44, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Footlessmouse: I really want to promote this hook with the image, but I can't if the author Stevenson isn't mentioned in the hook with (pictured). SL93 (talk) 02:45, 23 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Start class[edit]

@Dthomsen8: Did you mean to label this article as start class? If so, could you provide reasons for doing so? It is highly unusual to rate an article with 14 kB of prose and over 70 references as start class. I meant to do a lot more expanding, but ran out of time to nominate it for DYK. I usually don't edit the articles while waiting on DYK, but I will make an exception to try to fix whatever problems caused it to be labeled as start class. Footlessmouse (talk) 23:04, 28 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've just seen this comment now and re-rated it B-class—I remember checking some of the B-class criteria at the time of the DYK review and I don't know why I didn't make the change. My main suggestion would be that "Reception" could be populated with more informative and analytic quotes (e.g. more of "praised the research", "said that the book was accessible to the target audience except in the details of X" and less of "it was amazing", "found it fantastic"). I was a bit surprised on initial reading about the layout and the length of the "Publication history" edition listings, but that's not to say that it's wrong—I think it does deviate a bit from WP:NONFICTION's suggested ordering and wonder whether a collapsible box would be appropriate for the listings, but these are just suggestions. — Bilorv (talk) 17:42, 28 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]