A fact from Jonathan Strong (slave) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 December 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Jonathan Strong, an early enslaved West Indian in Britain, was abused by his master so badly that he could barely walk or see?
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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.
@AFreshStart: Nominated for DYK less than a day after creation, and is about 3000 bytes, satisfying date and length criteria. I'll assume good faith for the references I cannot access. Per Wikipedia:Did you know/Supplementary guidelines#Other supplementary rules for the article point D2, each paragraph should have at least one citation. In the article, it states "...until 1767, whereby his former master Lisle saw Strong..." and subsequently the meeting between Sharp and the Lord Mayor. According to page 217 of "Account of the Late Granville Sharp...", Sharp approached Robert Kite, who is listed as lord mayor for only 1766. Can you reconcile those date discrepancies? (I do see that the Hochschild ref mentions the event as 2 years later from 1765, so there is some inconsistency in the reference material too.) Original hook is suitably short, interesting, and sourced in the text. ALT1 is not mentioned in the article at all (see WP:DYKCRIT points 3a and 3b). QPQ not required. As an aside: it would be useful to have page numbers with each citation (for example, by using {{rp}}). Mindmatrix21:04, 24 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, thanks for pointing out the date discrepancy! I'm afraid I can't reconcile that, so I've removed specific dates from the article to avoid confusion. —AFreshStart (talk) 11:52, 25 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@AFreshStart: Nominated for DYK less than a day after creation, and is about 3000 bytes, satisfying date and length criteria. I'll assume good faith for the references I cannot access. Per Wikipedia:Did you know/Supplementary guidelines#Other supplementary rules for the article point D2, each paragraph should have at least one citation. In the article, it states "...until 1767, whereby his former master Lisle saw Strong..." and subsequently the meeting between Sharp and the Lord Mayor. According to page 217 of "Account of the Late Granville Sharp...", Sharp approached Robert Kite, who is listed as lord mayor for only 1766. Can you reconcile those date discrepancies? (I do see that the Hochschild ref mentions the event as 2 years later from 1765, so there is some inconsistency in the reference material too.) Original hook is suitably short, interesting, and sourced in the text. ALT1 is not mentioned in the article at all (see WP:DYKCRIT points 3a and 3b). QPQ not required. As an aside: it would be useful to have page numbers with each citation (for example, by using {{rp}}). Mindmatrix 21:04, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
Good to go. Mindmatrix 19:05, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
