- 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 Yoninah (talk) 20:04, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
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John H. Hill
1923 portrait of John H. Hill
- ... that John H. Hill (pictured), born into slavery, was the first African American lawyer in West Virginia and the second president of West Virginia State University? Source: Source 1: Born into slavery, Source 2 (p. 246): first lawyer, Source 3: 2nd president of WVSU
Improved to Good Article status by West Virginian (talk). Self-nominated at 01:43, 22 September 2020 (UTC).
Hi West Virginian, review follows: article promoted to GA on 22 September; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; too many sources for me to check them all but a spot check found no issues with overly close paraphrasing; hook is interesting and mentioned in article. I trimmed "admitted to the bar" from the hook as the article only states he was the first admitted to the bar in Jefferson County but was the first African-American lawyer in West Virginia; hooks check out to sources cited here and in the article; image works well as small scale and is freely licensed, the caption could probably be trimmed a little; a QPQ has been carried out; looks good to me - Dumelow (talk) 07:25, 22 September 2020 (UTC)- Dumelow, thank you for your thorough review of this article, hook, and image for DYK. I concur with your edit to the hook, and have shortened the caption accordingly. -- West Virginian (talk) 12:53, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
