Template:Did you know nominations/Mo Cowan

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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 05:27, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

Mo Cowan

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... that the appointment of Mo Cowan (pictured) to the United States Senate marks the first time two African Americans served concurrently?

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Comment: ALT1: ... that Mo Cowan (pictured) helped Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney identify African American candidates for judgeships after Romney was criticized for his appointees' lack of diversity?

Created by Muboshgu (talk), Bmclaughlin9 (talk), Mr Beale (talk). Nominated by Muboshgu (talk) at 16:19, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Article is new enough, article and hook meet length requirements, and sourcing for article and hook have been verified. I think that the original hook is far more interesting than ALT1, though it astonishes me that the U.S. Constitution allows for the appointment of a United States Senator who did not have a Wikipedia article at the time of his appointment. I think that a new amendment may be in order, and if our nation only had a citizen-editable Constitution I would have done it already per WP:BRD. Alansohn (talk) 16:29, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Bonnie Newman was one of my first DYKs, and it was a similar circumstance (except that Gregg didn't go through with his resignation). I'll provide QPQ soon, and will add a free image once he's sworn in and gets his congressional portrait taken. Hopefully this can lead a set since February is Black History Month? (Good timing, Deval.) – Muboshgu (talk) 18:56, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

QPQ needed. Thanks for the catch. Lord Roem ~ (talk) 22:46, 4 February 2013 (UTC)

His swearing in is officially tomorrow. I assume we'll get a portrait tomorrow as well. At that time, I'll provide QPQ and we can get this up, hopefully with the image, like I said due to it being Black History Month. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:01, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
I've added an image and a QPQ. – Muboshgu (talk) 19:53, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Image and QPQ have been resolved so it looks like this one is ready to go. Allecher (talk) 23:53, 8 February 2013 (UTC)