Template:Did you know nominations/The Mafeje Affair
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Mafeje affair
... that the apartheid South African government pressured the University of Cape Town to rescind an African academic's job offer as it would flout "the accepted traditional out-look of South Africa"?Source: History Workshop Journal African Studies
Created by FuzzyMagma (talk). Self-nominated at 17:22, 9 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/The Mafeje Affair; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
- I'd prefer to give the individual credit by name in the hook. Also, the sources cited spell "outlook" as one word rather than hyphenated; there's an image in the article of a hyphenated "out-look" but that's over a line break. So I would recommend ALT1: "... that the apartheid South African government pressured the University of Cape Town to rescind a job offer to Archie Mafeje as it would flout "the accepted traditional outlook of South Africa"?" --Metropolitan90 (talk) 01:54, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- Agree, but instead of “ to rescind a job offer” use “ to rescind its job offer” FuzzyMagma (talk) 02:32, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
- @Metropolitan90: forgot to ping
Full review needed. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:14, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
Claim spot, review to come tonight.@FuzzyMagma: Made copyedits as I read. ALT1 is suitable for the main page (AGF on refs behind paywall). Article is neutral and well cited, QPQ there. However, the article is not technically new enough by DYK criteria - most (I'd guess at least 60%) of the text appears in the first version of Archie Mafeje when it was moved to mainspace on 30 December 2022, and Mafeje affair was split off and nominated on 9 February 2023. It's a shame because this is a very good hook, and the article meets all other criteria. Either
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, will leave to others' eyes. @Metropolitan90, BlueMoonset, and Theleekycauldron: could I ping you for your thoughts? Hameltion (talk | contribs) 02:54, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
