Talk:List of Washington College alumni

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that there were only 218 Washington College alumni from 1845 to 1903?

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you should redlink your famous ones and put articles up...or else maybe they arent that famous?

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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 Vanamonde (Talk) 10:27, 26 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... that there were only 218 Washington College alumni from 1845 to 1903? Dumschott 1980, p. 135
- ALT1:... that four Washington College alumni have been elected to the United States Senate?
- ALT2:... that one Governor of Delaware and two Governors of Maryland are Washington College alumni?

Comment: I will do my QPQ soon. It has been a bit since I did this

5x expanded by Guerillero (talk). Self-nominated at 02:22, 17 November 2019 (UTC).[reply]

QPQ: Template:Did you know nominations/Naomi Watts filmography --Guerillero | Parlez Moi 02:33, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Guerillero here is my review. epicgenius (talk) 01:55, 22 November 2019 (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: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: epicgenius (talk) 01:55, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the phrase However, we do know that 218 students graduated between 1845 and 1903, it would be better that the article doesn't use the word "we", e.g. use a construction such as "it is known". Otherwise everything is good.

@Epicgenius: I made that change --In actu (Guerillero) | My Talk 22:42, 22 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

looks good to go now. epicgenius (talk) 18:43, 25 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]