Template:Did you know nominations/Katherine Hughes (activist)

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:44, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

Katherine Hughes (activist)

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• ... that Katherine Hughes became the first provincial archivist for Alberta in 1908? Kaltie, MacKenzie. "Edmontians in the Spotlight: Katherine Hughes". Fort Edmonton Park. Retrieved 3 May 2019.

Created by Clovermoss (talk) and SkyGazer 512 (talk). Nominated by Clovermoss (talk) at 20:58, 3 May 2019 (UTC).

• Almost everything seems good to go. Article is long enough, was created recently (moved into article space from drafting space), and is well-sourced. The hook is sourced and the correct length. Nominator is new and no QPQ required. The only possible issue is that the hook could be more interesting. Maybe this is a borderline case where the present hook would be enough. But I suspect the nominator too would like an interesting hook (they were discussing it on their talk page). This is their issue to resolve, but it occurs to me that perhaps they could do something that takes advantage of the similarities of the words "activist" and "archivist" (after all, DYK hook reviewing guidelines suggest unusual nicknames as an interesting hook, so why not other forms of wordplay?). [note: If active DYK editors or admins think the hook is sufficiently interesting, then I'd call it good to go now] --Presearch (talk) 23:08, 3 May 2019 (UTC)

Checking the references, I think that with a bit judicious expansion of the content by Clovermoss, the following alternate hook (below) might well meet Presearch's suggestion for a more interesting hook. Nick Moyes (talk) 23:37, 11 May 2019 (UTC)

ALT1 * ... that Canadian journalist Katherine Hughes became Alberta's first provincial archivist, but later became a political activist, fighting for Irish self-determination?  "In 1917 she resigned from her London post to dedicate herself to the cause of Irish freedom." Source: Mclaughlin, Robert (2013). Irish Canadian Conflict and the Struggle for Irish Independence, 1912-1915. University of Toronto Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-4426-1097-2. Retrieved 15 April 2019.

I'm giving this a good to go, with ALT1. Everything else looks fine.Felixkrater (talk) 17:46, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

• Please address the "which" tag in the article. Yoninah (talk) 22:39, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

• @Clovermoss: thank you for editing the section (next time let us know here on the template). Restoring tick per Felixkrater's review. Yoninah (talk) 22:43, 19 June 2019 (UTC)