Template:Did you know nominations/Hampton Roads Conference

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 03:33, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Hampton Roads Conference

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• ... that Union and Confederate leaders discussed a possible alliance against France at the 1865 Hampton Roads Conference?

• Reviewed: Franz Kafka works
• Comment: Alternate hooks:

• ALT1 ... that Francis Preston Blair and Ulysses S. Grant convinced Abraham Lincoln to meet Confederate leaders at the 1865 Hampton Roads Conference?
• ALT2 ... that the Hampton Roads Conference almost disrupted passage of the Thirteenth Amendment?

5x expanded by Groupuscule (talk). Self nominated at 06:36, 5 July 2013 (UTC).

• Expanded sixfold over 3 days so new enough. Over 22k characters so long enough. Checking sources. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·cont) Join WER 02:04, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
• Neutral with inline citations. No copyright, close paraphrasing or plagiarism. BLP not an issue. All of the hooks are accurate and sourced adequately but the suggested hook provides too little context. Without references to France's occupation of Mexico to establish the Second Mexican Empire, few will understand why the Union and Confederates might want such an alliance. ALT2 is very USA-centric and few in the rest of the English-speaking world will understand the reference to 13th Amendment. I prefer ALT1 because most of the English-speaking world has heard of Lincoln and would be surprised that he met with opposition leaders during the American Civil War.

Good to go. Suggest ALT1 but decision is up to admin who moves this nomination on up. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ·cont) Join WER 04:58, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

• I moved this from the prep area not because something was wrong with it, but because the prep area already had a Civil War hook. SL93 (talk) 03:00, 9 July 2013 (UTC)