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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that President Thomas A. Spragens suspended all classes at Centre College several days after the Kent State shootings, and organized teaching sessions for students on the college lawn?
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Did you know nomination

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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.

The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk08:10, 2 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

5x expanded by PCN02WPS (talk). Self-nominated at 15:20, 21 April 2022 (UTC).[reply]

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Thomas A. Spragens/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Mike Christie (talk · contribs) 18:01, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]


I'll review this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 18:01, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It is quite unclear to me as to the original source of this image (as in, the photographer and when it was taken) so completing the FUR is a little confusing for me; thankfully, I have a pretty good idea of some people I could talk to now that I'm back on campus as to whether I could either obtain this information or get a picture that isn't ARR, so I have decided to comment out the image from the infobox for now (since this is the main thing standing in the way of a GA, if I'm understanding you correctly), and I'll see what I can do from here. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 05:23, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
That source was just a collection of obituaries from The Advocate-Messenger, so I've replaced that source with the actual obit in the paper. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 05:21, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Why are we singling out the New York Times as having praised Spragen's plan? I have a subscription to the NYT and tried to find the article, and couldn't; if you have any more details, let me know and I'll see if I can dig it up.
  • Not an issue for GA, but there are a lot of uses of "also", many of which could be cut.
  • "Spragens ended his presidency when he asked to be relieved of his duties on November 16, 1981": is this just a way of saying he resigned? Or does it mean more than that?
  • "After his retirement from the presidency, he continued his public service, and served on": suggest just "After his retirement from the presidency he served on" -- the bit in the middle is just unspecific praise.
  • "and one such committee drafted a "statement of concern" intended to be sent to President Richard Nixon": why is this relevant in this article?

-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:07, 20 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Mike Christie: several responses above. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 02:05, 22 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
PCN02WPS, just checking you haven't forgotten about this. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 13:47, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Mike Christie Thanks for the ping - this weekend I have been moving back into school and will start classes soon so I will get to it when I have a touch more time, probably within the next few days, if that's alright with you. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 20:41, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, no problem keeping this open for a bit. I'll check in with you again in about a week. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:50, 28 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Mike Christie I think I'm ready for another look, thanks very much for your patience. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 05:24, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]
No problem. Fixes look good; passing. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 10:48, 1 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]