Talk:Edward Kimball (teacher)

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 Lightburst (talk) 00:46, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

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Edward Kimball, Sunday School teacher and debt raiser

• ... that nineteenth century American evangelist Dwight L. Moody was converted to Christianity in the stock room of a shoe store by his Sunday School teacher? Source: The Life of DL Moody https://archive.org/details/lifedwightlmood00moodgoog/page/39/mode/2up?q=kimball&view=theater
  • ALT1: ... that the Sunday School teacher who converted nineteenth century evangelist Dwight L. Moody would later raise $15 million to reduce church debts? Source: The Life of DL Moody https://archive.org/details/lifedwightlmood00moodgoog/page/39/mode/2up?q=kimball&view=theater. The $15m figure is cited in "Debt Raiser Dead: Kimball dies at 78". The Idaho Statesman. 6 June 1901. p. 3. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
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Created by Nicolet1327 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:53, 22 March 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Edward Kimball (Sunday School teacher); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

• Review underway... Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 19:44, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

• Article was started in a sandbox and was moved to mainspace on 18 March, the date of the nomination.
• Easily long enough, at >5KB of prose, and correctly graded at C-class.
• No maintenance templates or issues with article stability.
• There is no plagiarism or close paraphrasing, and the article is written in a suitably neutral tone.
• Article appears to be comprehensive, with nothing significant missing.
• All sources used are of good quality.
• Book hooks are fully supported and are suitably interesting. ALT1 is probably more accessible to a wider audience, although to my mind D.L. Moody is a sufficiently well-known figure, even on this side of the Atlantic, to support a hook on his own, as it were. See my note below about hook formatting.
• Oddly, the obituary (ref [1]) gets his age wrong. I am satisfied that his birth and death dates mean he was actually 77 when he died, not 78 as stated in the obituary.

• Outstanding issues as follows – these should be fairly easy to fix:
  • Moody was seventeen years old at his conversion: although this is stated on page 43 of ref [2] (The Life of Dwight L. Moody), page 44 goes on to indicate that he was 18, and reference [10] and DLM's article both suggest he was 18 at the time. It would be good to get this clarified.
  • The first two paragraphs of "Church debt raiser", Kimball and his family moved to Chicago ... of various churches, are not supported by ref [1]. I suspect one of the other references was intended to support this; please check.
  • The hooks need to be formatted to include a bold link to the article and the word "pictured", and it would be better to include his name rather than just linking to "Sunday School teacher". Something like this (also note formatting of "19th-century"): ... that 19th-century American evangelist Dwight L. Moody was converted to Christianity in the stock room of a shoe store by his Sunday School teacher Edward Kimball (pictured)? Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 21:18, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) - thank you sooo much for your comments! I appreciate the details and have updated each reference asked about.

• Moody was 18 years old at conversion - if one calculates the dates vs using the text from the source.
• The Noted Helper article does say Moody moved to Chicago after the fire. He was married with children, so I wrote his family moved too, though his obituary did not explicitly say the family moved with him. His three living children listed in the obituary are all in Chicago, ILL area.
• The hook you suggested is so much stronger than my initial one. I hadn't considered the "picture" potential. Does the D.L. Moody names need to be linked to his article? How can the hook be updated to:

... that 19th-century American evangelist Dwight L. Moody was converted to Christianity in the stock room of a shoe store by his Sunday School teacher Edward Kimball (pictured)? Here is the url for the picture, if needed: https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/File:Edward_Kimball_1823_to_1901_Inter_Ocean_6_June_1901.jpg

Again - thank you for your assistance! Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) Nicolet1327 (talk) 22:16, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for the updates; now verified. Picture is good to go as well. For promoters of this nomination, I will put the recommended hook below and call it ALT2: Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 12:01, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

• • ALT2: ... that 19th-century American evangelist Dwight L. Moody was converted to Christianity in the stock room of a shoe store by his Sunday School teacher Edward Kimball (pictured)?