Talk:Francis Orray Ticknor

A fact from Francis Orray Ticknor appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 May 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Francis Orray Ticknor was a country doctor whose fame as a poet relies on "Little Giffen", a poem about one of his patients who died in the American Civil War?

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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) 16:46, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Francis Orray Ticknor was a country doctor whose fame as a poet relies on "Little Giffen", a poem about one of his patients who died in the American Civil War? Source: https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/francis-orray-ticknor-1822-1874/
- Reviewed Template:Did you know nominations/The Party (Andy Shauf album).

Created by Drmies (talk). Self-nominated at 16:19, 28 March 2022 (UTC).[reply]

ALT1... that country doctor and Civil War poet Francis Orray Ticknor said the future of Georgia lay in growing grass; wrote about apples, greenhouses, and peach trees; and argued against Reconstruction?
Please add writing credit for User:Uncle G, for his valuable horticultural additions. Drmies (talk) 14:49, 1 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

New enough and long enough. There were some things I found ambiguous in the prose and I did a little copyediting. The page is neutral and supported by in-line citations. Earwig didn't detect any copyvios, and neither did I with a few spot-checks (I'm able to access the JSTOR articles). QPQ is done. The source that you listed in the hook area is not the same as the source on the page itself. The page itself supports the hook content though. I think the page would benefit from the inclusion of the text of "Little Giffen" (which is in the public domain) but concede that this exceeds the scope of a DYK review. I prefer the first hook and I think it could be more tightly worded, but it's fine the way it is too. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 17:53, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]