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A fact from California mission project appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 January 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that California schoolchildren "learn" about Spanish missions by building dioramas?

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The result was: promoted by Rjjiii talk 09:19, 13 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

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... that California 4th graders "learn" about Spanish missions by building dioramas? Source: "McTygue adds: "Building a mission doesn't really teach anything of substance about the period and it's offensive to many. Attention should focus on the daily experience of missions rather than the building structures themselves." https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/California-public-schools-mission-project-model-11953722.php
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- Comment: This would be my 4th DYK, so QPQ is not required.

Created by BaduFerreira (talk). Self-nominated at 07:12, 11 December 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/California mission project; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.Reply

QPQ unnecessary, as stated. New article, easily big enough, and well-sourced. Earwig found only properly-marked direct quotes, no problematic copying. The hook source will not be news to anyone who went through a public education in California, but I think it's interesting enough, and well-enough sourced. Good to go. —David Eppstein (talk) 03:47, 26 December 2023 (UTC)Reply

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"Approximately 62,000 indigenous Californians died by the time the missions ceased operation in 1833." What exactly is meant by this - all on-mission deaths? excess deaths due to mistreatment or disease? Sheila1988 (talk) 15:36, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

@Sheila1988 It was exposure to foreign diseases and mistreatment by the friars (beatings, overworking, starvation). I expanded the sentence a bit to add that context BaduFerreira (talk) 16:22, 21 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

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