Template:Did you know nominations/Kyle Jean-Baptiste

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The result was: promoted by sovereign°sentinel (contribs) 09:21, 6 September 2015 (UTC)

Kyle Jean-Baptiste

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• ... that before his recent death, Kyle Jean-Baptiste was the first African-American actor to portray Jean Valjean in the musical, Les Misérables?

• ALT1:... that Kyle Jean-Baptiste was the first African-American actor to portray Jean Valjean in the musical, Les Misérables?
• Reviewed: Susan Bailey
• Comment: Failed ITN nomination

Created by Cagepanes (talk). Nominated by George Ho (talk) at 15:43, 31 August 2015 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - The first source, NY Times, states, "the first African-American actor to play the lead role of Jean Valjean in the popular Broadway musical Les Misérables". "Broadway musical" in the NYT links to a list of Current Broadway Shows. Therefore, we can only reasonably infer that Jean-Baptiste was the first African-American to play the role on Broadway, not globally as the hook might lead us to infer. The articel itself in "Career", states, "Jean-Baptiste became the first black and the youngest person to ever portray the character on Broadway". Hook should have "on Broadway" added at the end.

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Edwardx (talk) 18:13, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

• ALT2: ... that before his recent death, Kyle Jean-Baptiste was the first African-American actor to portray Jean Valjean in the musical, Les Misérables, on Broadway?
• ALT3:... that Kyle Jean-Baptiste was the first African-American actor to portray Jean Valjean in the musical, Les Misérables, on Broadway?

• Added "on Broadway" in response, Edwardx. George Ho (talk) 22:57, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks. I've renamed the revised hooks as ALT2 and ALT3. Edwardx (talk) 23:01, 3 September 2015 (UTC)