Talk:List of presidents of Centre College

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A fact from List of presidents of Centre College appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 April 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that James McChord is considered to be the first president of Centre College despite dying before officially taking up the role?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/List of presidents of Centre College.

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 20:35, 7 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that fourteen of the first sixteen presidents of Centre College were Presbyterian ministers? Source: Centre College: a Bicentennial History (Weston, 2019): "Thus it came about that in 1870 Ormond Beatty became the first president of Centre College who was not a minister.", and CentreCyclopedia: "...and even though a layman (he would become only the second lay president, Ormand Beatty [sic] being the first)..."
- Reviewed: Shel Kaphan
- Comment: Very open to alternate hook suggestions

Moved to mainspace by PCN02WPS (talk). Self-nominated at 18:05, 3 March 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/List of presidents of Centre College; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Making a suggestion per the above comment:

ALT1 ... that James McChord is considered the first president of Centre College despite dying before officially taking up the role?

Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 14:08, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Narutolovehinata5: I like that hook so much that I actually used it for the hook I ran for his article, so I don't know if it's too similar to repeat here. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 14:31, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@PCN02WPS: Given that the article ran almost two years ago and this new hook isn't a word-for-word copy of the old one, I don't think it would hurt to run this particular hook fact again. I imagine that most people who read that previous hook would no longer remember if the saw this one. Narutolovehinata5 (talk · contributions) 19:01, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Narutolovehinata5: Good point. Works for me! PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 02:37, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed that we should go with ALT1. The chance of a DYK reader having seen the previous hook is extremely low. Sdkb ^talk 15:56, 16 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]