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A fact from Anne Cooke Reid appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 April 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Anne Cooke Reid founded the first Black summer theater in the United States?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anne Cooke Reid.

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Wikiprojects should be added above. FloridaArmy (talk) 00:32, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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 Bruxton (talk) 02:43, 20 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Anne Cooke Reid founded the first Black summer theater in the United States? Source: The Roots of African American Drama: "Anne Cooke Reid, who established the first black summer theater in America"
- ALT1: ... that Anne Cooke Reid was the first chairwoman of Howard University's theater department? Source: Profiles of African American stage performers and theatre people, 1816-1960: "...was soon lured away to Howard Univ... where she established the theater dept. ... became the chairperson"
- ALT2: ... that director Anne Cooke Reid toured plays by Henrik Ibsen and Dorothy and DuBose Heyward across Europe in 1949, each with an almost entirely Black cast? Source: Sorrow is the Only Faithful One - starting page 151, hard to summarize but it's all there
- ALT3: ... that director Anne Cooke Reid's Howard University Players toured Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany in 1949 as ambassadors of goodwill for the US State Department? Source: Profiles of African American stage performers and theatre people, 1816-1960 "Under Cooke's leadership, the HUP [toured] Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Germany for three months... as ambassadors of goodwill for the U. S. State Dept."
- Reviewed:
- Comment: Second nomination, new article -- this one about an African American stage director who seems quite influential and pioneering in Black theater. (It's part of FloridaArmy's "Missing Pieces" list, which is a great source of interesting figures to write about.) Anne Cooke Reid's career has a lot of "firsts," and the first two are some of those. The second two concern her Howard University Players' Europe tour. My preferred hook is some variation on ALT2 -- a nearly all-Black cast in the 1940s was noteworthy and much remarked upon by reviewers -- but I can't figure out how to least clunkily word it.

Created by Gnomingstuff (talk). Self-nominated at 05:15, 7 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Anne Cooke Reid; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Please include proper wikilinks in your hooks. Schwede 66 22:13, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

More links added. Not sure there are any more candidates for linking that wouldn't be overkill. Gnomingstuff (talk) 23:02, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Let's just focus on ALT0, which seems like a good hook. @Gnomingstuff: Can you provide a page number for this source? Otherwise, it looks like everything else checks out. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 15:46, 8 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Shows up searching the book in Google Books, but without page number; The Roots of African American Drama (eds. James V. Hatch, Leo Hamalian) also mentions it, page 289. Gnomingstuff (talk) 05:07, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Great, please add the citation to Roots of African American Drama, and then we're all set. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 23:26, 9 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

done Gnomingstuff (talk) 00:53, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see any changes; perhaps your edit was not saved? Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 13:35, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

It shows up for me under ALT0, not sure what you are seeing but reproducing here:

... that Anne Cooke Reid founded the first Black summer theater in the United States? Source: The Roots of African American Drama: "Anne Cooke Reid, who established the first black summer theater in America" Gnomingstuff (talk) 18:15, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oh sorry, what I meant was: please add this inline citation to the article. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 19:59, 10 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

apologies, misinterpreted; there now Gnomingstuff (talk) 04:36, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

All set to go for ALT0. Arbitrarily0 ^(talk) 13:09, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]