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The result was: promoted by Vaticidalprophet (talk) 12:13, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
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Melville Fuller
Melville Fuller
- ... that the New York Sun denounced U.S. Chief Justice Melville Fuller's mustache (pictured) as "deplorable", claiming that it distracted lawyers and debased the Supreme Court's dignity? Source: "Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller and the Great Mustache Debate of 1888", pgs. 143–144
- Reviewed: This will be my fourth DYK, so I'm still exempt.
- Comment: If you've ever wondered what law professors spend their time doing, now you know: writing scholarly articles about the "Great Mustache Debate of 1888".
Improved to Good Article status by Extraordinary Writ (talk). Self-nominated at 02:35, 11 July 2021 (UTC).
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- I'm not sure about how best to write The Sun (New York). The "the" appears to have been in the title. But The New York Sun is a different paper. I'm not sure it's essential to say it was a New York paper, so maybe we should just go with "that The Sun denounced..." Also, "U.S. Chief Justice" sounds a little weird; I think we should introduce "Supreme Court" at that point. Lastly, it's better to put the attribution after the fact than before. Putting those together, we have ALT0a: ...that U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville Fuller's mustache (pictured) was denounced as "deplorable" by the The Sun, which claimed that it distracted lawyers and debased the court's dignity?
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Apart from the wording tweaks, this looks good. All criteria met (with some assumed to have been covered during GAN), and fact is exceptionally interesting. {{u|Sdkb}} talk 07:45, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
- Thanks for the review, Sdkb. With regards to The Sun, my fear is that simply referring to The Sun would cause most people to think of the far more well-known The Sun (United Kingdom), which would put a completely different picture in their minds. (Most readers would think that the quoted remark was rather moderate for The Sun, considering the sort of antics for which it is known.) Since the source does refer to it specifically as the New York Sun, I think that might be the best course. The rest of your tweaks are fine. (My original "U.S. Chief Justice" phrasing was meant to mollify those who use the formal Chief Justice of the United States phrasing to claim that, in the words of one of history's great nitpickers, "There isn't any such person" as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. But in this case, I agree that the need for clarity outweighs the desire for precision.) So I'd propose the following, which is the same as your suggestion except for the New York Sun distinction: Alt0b: ... that U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville Fuller's mustache (pictured) was denounced as "deplorable" by the New York Sun, which claimed that it distracted lawyers and debased the court's dignity? Cheers, Extraordinary Writ (talk) 17:27, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
