Talk:Seraph Young Ford

Did you know nomination

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) 14:27, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

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Seraph Young Ford, 1902

• ... that Seraph Young Ford (pictured) was the first American woman to cast a vote under a women's equal suffrage law?
  No hook was supplied, so I added an image and my suggested hook. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 21:44, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
  • ALT1:... that ...? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)

Created/expanded by Historian1896 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:08, 22 May 2020 (UTC).

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

Policy compliance:

• Adequate sourcing:
• Neutral:
• Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
• Other problems: - Some citations from books lack a page number

Hook eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: @Mandarax: Since you are the one who proposed the hook should I count the QPQ for you? Otherwise this appears to be nom's first DYK so it's fine. @Historian1896: Sources no. 3 and 8 are seemingly from longer publications so a page number would be needed. No. 4 has some formatting issues but I'll fix that. Thanks, RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:58, 9 June 2020 (UTC)

I saw that the nominator was a new user who hadn't supplied an image or hook, so I added them as a courtesy. I had nothing to do with the article, and I certainly don't expect any credit. MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 01:15, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

@Mandarax: In that case then this would be good to go pending the page numbers (which are still only a minor issue). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 01:39, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

@RandomCanadian: I think we can do better with the hook. There are probably other women who were the first to vote in their state. Yoninah (talk) 22:49, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

@Yoninah and Historian1896: Apparently she was the first in the whole of the USA. In any case, the issues I pointed out have still not been fixed... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 22:52, 15 June 2020 (UTC)

@RandomCanadian: The source (#3) with no page numbers is a pamphlet with no numbered pages. However, I did add a page number for source 8. Is there anything else I need to do for the DYK? This is not just the first woman to vote in Utah with full suffrage rights, but all of the U.S.Historian1896 (talk) 16:16, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Sorry for taking this long to respond. I assume the pamphlet has only a few pages anyway? The other problem I identified was fixed so . RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 11:16, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Moved from talk RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 23:41, 16 June 2020 (UTC)I can't figure out how to comment on the comments for my DYK nomination. Seraph Young was the first woman to vote in the United States under a women's equal suffrage law. There had been women who voted in other places and circumstances (such as New Jersey before 1807 and Kansas and Kentucky in local school board elections), but none of those had been under laws that put women's voting rights on an equal footing to men's. Wyoming Territory had passed an equal suffrage law in December 1869, but Utah Territory's law passed in February 1870 and Utah held elections first, so Utah women had the distinction of voting first.Historian1896 (talk) 23:25, 16 June 2020 (UTC)