A fact from Lily Golden appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 November 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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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.
Overall: This does have promise. It's new, of sufficient length, neutral, and well-sourced without plagiarism. However, I do feel the hooks could be rewritten to be clearer and more concise to be more interesting to a broad audience. Lazman321 (talk) 21:49, 1 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Lazman321: I added what should be enough clarity, but this is the clearest and shortest I could do without losing their hookiness.
ALT0A: ... that Soviet academic Lily Golden, born to an interracial couple from the United States, finally reunited with her relatives there decades after being unable to return due to racism? Source: Same as ALT0
ALT0B: ... that academic Lily Golden, born to an American interracial couple, finally reunited with her American relatives decades after being unable to leave the Soviet Union due to racism? Source: Same as ALT0
@Miraclepine, @Lazman321, could you share some thoughts on why you consider blackpast.org a reliable source? A previous discussion seemed to indicate that they are generally unreliable, and in this specific case, the page appears to be cited to africana.ru (does not appear reliable), and a blog post on a random blog. Given how much the article relies on the blackpast.org citation, this does not seem sufficient for DYK to me. —Ganesha811 (talk) 17:53, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Ganesha811: Thanks for the heads up. Okay, I looked, and it appears I bizarrely overlooked the issue. My mistake; I somehow thought they were reliable. At the least Africana.ru has an editorial staff/board (mentioned a few times on the home page; you'll need to GT since it's in Russian), and their founder/editor-in-chiefIgor Sid [ru] (in addition to his work on geopoetics) is an Africanist who's been cited for writing on Africa in some academic books and, if the ruwiki page has anything to say, also edited several magazines/curated some exhibitions on Africa, so I'm inclined to vouch for their reliability. Not sure on the Afro-Europe international Blog other than the fact they wrote for the Baltimore Afro-American. I'm busy atm, but I'll look closer and remove the BlackPast refs at the least. ミラP@Miraclepine18:40, 24 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Ganesha811: On second thought, the Afro-Europe ref is pretty much the same as the New African article "A golden example: the history of Lily Golden, a Russian African-American professor of history, is an inspiration to those fighting against supremacists worldwide", available at Gale thru TWL. I'm using that also. ミラP@Miraclepine00:19, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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This does have promise. It's new, of sufficient length, neutral, and well-sourced without plagiarism. However, I do feel the hooks could be rewritten to be clearer and more concise to be more interesting to a broad audience. Lazman321 (talk) 21:49, 1 November 2024 (UTC)