Talk:ACLU of Hawaiʻi

A fact from ACLU of Hawaiʻi appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 June 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee was designated as a Communist front by the House Un-American Activities Committee?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 08:56, 6 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that it took three tries over three decades to form the ACLU of Hawai‘i?
- ALT1: ... that the Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee, which lobbied against a committee on "un-American activities" in Hawaii, was later listed as a Communist front by the House Un-American Activities Committee?
  - ALT1a: ... that the Hawaii Civil Liberties Committee was designated as a Communist front by the House Un-American Activities Committee?
- Reviewed: William West Jr
- Comment: Working on adding more recent info to the article, which may generate some new hooks as well.

Created by Ezlev (talk). Self-nominated at 04:55, 16 May 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Comment: Thought I'd punchify ALT1 a bit (added as ALT1a); I thought the communist part was a little more grabby. Maybe include the year? theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 05:19, 17 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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: Done.

Overall:

The promoter can choose the hook. SL93 (talk) 11:53, 29 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]