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A fact from The Anglo-African (Lagos) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 November 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that The Anglo-African (pictured) was the first newspaper to be published in the British Colony of Lagos?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Anglo-African (Lagos).

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) 21:46, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Front page of The Anglo-African

... that The Anglo-African was the first newspaper to be published in the British Colony of Lagos? "Robert Campbell later owned and edited the first locally published newspaper in Colonial Lagos, the Anglo-African" from: Smith, Robert S. (8 January 2021). The Lagos Consulate 1851 - 1861. Univ of California Press. p. 170. ISBN 978-0-520-32583-8.
- ALT1: ... that the British governor of the Colony of Lagos tried to impose a punitive tax upon The Anglo-African newspaper because he thought it destabilised the colony? "Governor Freeman wrote to the Colonial Office in the hope that it would endorse his proposed imposition of ... a tax upon Newspapers published in this colony as would preclude the possibility of their succeeding as a monetary speculation", for he feared that newspapers would only ignite ill-feelings between local groups in Lagos" from p137 of Blackett, R. J. M. (1975). "Return to the Motherland: Robert Campbell, a Jamaican in Early Colonial Lagos". Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria. 8 (1): 133–143. ISSN 0018-2540.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/KNCR

Created by Dumelow (talk). Self-nominated at 21:48, 8 November 2021 (UTC).[reply]

New article is 2,692 characters long and nominated on the same day as creation. No copyvios detected (AGF all refs re. any close paraphrasing issues, since none can go through Dup detector). Article is well-sourced. Main hook is 94 characters long (ALT1 is 159); both are under 200 character max. and are interesting. Refs 1 and 2 (verifying the hook and ALT1) is a reliable source (AGF both as there is no preview available). QPQ done. Image is free and in the public domain. Looks good to go! —Bloom6132 (talk) 02:15, 9 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

ALT0 to T:DYK/P3