A fact from Leonard Abrams appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 July 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Leonard Abrams founded the arts and culture magazine East Village Eye, which he claimed was the first publication to print a comprehensive definition of hip-hop?
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... that Leonard Abrams was the founder of the East Village Eye, an arts and culture magazine which in 1982 is believed to have been the first publication to print a comprehensive definition of hip-hop? Source: "Despite its downtown focus, the Eye also cast a glance uptown and beyond to chronicle the world of hip-hop as it hurtled toward the mainstream. It ran early feature articles about Afrika Bambaataa, Run-DMC and the graffiti artist Fab 5 Freddy.Indeed, Mr. Abrams and others associated with the Eye long claimed that it was the first publication to print a comprehensive definition of hip-hop, with a parenthetical in a January 1982 interview with Mr. Bambaataa by the writer Michael Holman that summarized the term as “the all-inclusive tag for the rapping, breaking, graffiti-writing, crew-fashion-wearing street subculture.”"
Overall: Created 9 days before, which is pushing the discretionary envelope a bit (8-10 days are sometimes still possible). There are also some key phrases from the NYT article, leading to an Earwig hit of 30.6%, albeit one of those is from a quote and is appropriate, and two others can be addressed (and the actual similarities are a fraction of the NYT article total). The hook needs some reworking, as right now it could be misread around the 1982. So with a little work, this can be ready, subject to a second opinion and / or an explanation on the delayed submission. // I am going to greenlight this for ALT2, as I think the hip-hop point is of wide interest, the delay in submission has been underlined by the long wait, and the input is responsive and now compact enough. Good luck! SeoR (talk) 15:29, 30 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
Created 9 days before, which is pushing the discretionary envelope a bit (8-10 days are sometimes still possible). There are also some key phrases from the NYT article, leading to an Earwig hit of 30.6%, albeit one of those is from a quote and is appropriate, and two others can be addressed (and the actual similarities are a fraction of the NYT article total). The hook needs some reworking, as right now it could be misread around the 1982. So with a little work, this can be ready, subject to a second opinion and / or an explanation on the delayed submission. // I am going to greenlight this for ALT2, as I think the hip-hop point is of wide interest, the delay in submission has been underlined by the long wait, and the input is responsive and now compact enough. Good luck! SeoR (talk) 15:29, 30 June 2023 (UTC)