Template:Did you know nominations/William Rounseville Alger

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 10:49, 18 December 2021 (UTC)

William Rounseville Alger

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William Rounseville Alger

... that William Rounseville Alger's (pictured) 1857 Fourth of July speech was so controversial that the city of Boston refused to print it for seven years? Source: Rand, John C. (1890). One Of a Thousand : A Series of Biographical Sketches of One Thousand Representative Men Resident In The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, A.D. 1888–'89. Boston: First National Pub. Co. p. 11. Retrieved 4 December 2021 – via Open Library.

Created by Shuri42 (talk). Self-nominated at 19:09, 5 December 2021 (UTC).

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

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Article is new enough, long enough and well sourced. The hook is cited and interesting. qpq is not needed since the nominator only has 1 dyk credit. This one looks ready to go! BuySomeApples (talk) 19:43, 16 December 2021 (UTC) To T:DYK/P6