Template:Did you know nominations/Samuel Noble Monument
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The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 05:07, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
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Samuel Noble Monument
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Samuel Noble Monument in Anniston, Alabama
- ... that the Samuel Noble Monument (pictured) honors the founder of Anniston, Alabama? Source: "The statue of Anniston's founder" NPSgallery, p. 1 under "Description"
- Reviewed: Carlos A. Long
Created by Maile66 (talk). Self-nominated at 13:47, 20 March 2017 (UTC).
Article is New enough, long enough, sourced and written in a neutral manner. The image has a proper license tag in Commons. QPQ is in order. Hook is hooky enough, cited and appeared in the article. However, the article and the source says that he founded the town with another person (Daniel Tyler). The hook says "the founder of ..." which implies he's the only founder. Can you update it? HaEr48 (talk) 07:23, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
- HaEr48 Please see the last sentence of the article, which explains this. The NRHP, as well as the 2015 Anniston newspaper account, say Noble was "the" founder and don't even mention the others. I included the paragraph about how the town was founded to be all-inclusive on the history, and found that information in the Encyclopedia of Alabama. However, as also noted in the last sentence of the article, when the statue was created the townspeople viewed Noble as the sole founder of the town. Because the article is about the statue, I went with the wording on the NRHP (sourced in the article) that claims he was "the founder", not one of the founders. Maybe the townspeople who were there when it happened saw the others as second-tier on the founding. Suggestions? — Maile (talk) 11:54, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
