Template:Did you know nominations/Leonard Hall (socialist)

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 17:12, 15 December 2018 (UTC)

Leonard Hall (socialist)

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Hall in 1895
Hall in 1895
  • ... that Leonard Hall (pictured), a leader of the British Independent Labour Party, worked as a cowboy in the United States? Source: "Leonard Hall was first employed as a parcel-boy in 1879, then successively as a printer's boy, sailor and, during a visit to the United States, as a cowboy." (Crick, 1994)

Created by Warofdreams (talk). Self-nominated at 01:15, 20 November 2018 (UTC).

  • Hi Warofdreams, review follows: article created 14 November; article exceeds minimum length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; all sources are offline so I have assumed in good faith that there has been no copyright violation from these; hook fact is interesting and the cowboy cited in the article, again I am happy to AGF that the source used backs this up (the extract given above appears to do so); however I think it might be a little misleading to say "a leader of the British Independent Labour Party" - this would be construed as him being the leader of the party which the article doesn't say he was. Could this be rephrased to "a leading member of the..."? Image is freely licensed and used in the article; QPQ has been done. This looks good to go if my query about "leader" is resolved - Dumelow (talk) 23:55, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
  • Absolutely, happy to change to this, I've listed it as ALT1, above. Thanks for the review! Warofdreams talk 12:25, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
Excellent, ticked - Dumelow (talk) 13:19, 22 November 2018 (UTC)