Talk:Margaret Peoples Shirer

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 13:56, 19 June 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that Margaret Peoples Shirer, the first Christian missionary to learn Mooré, was a woman with only a grammar school education? Source: Daher Kowalski, R. (2020). Margaret Peoples Shirer: Explorer, translator, and proclaimer. In C. D. Hartung (Ed.), Claiming Notability for Women Activists in Religion (pp. 163–177). ATLA Open Press. https://doi.org/10.31046/atlaopenpress.40
  • ALT1: ... that Margaret Peoples Shirer established the first Assemblies of God missions in Ghana? Source: Daher Kowalski, R. (2020). Margaret Peoples Shirer: Explorer, translator, and proclaimer. In C. D. Hartung (Ed.), Claiming Notability for Women Activists in Religion (pp. 163–177). ATLA Open Press. https://doi.org/10.31046/atlaopenpress.40
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Created by Jaireeodell (talk). Self-nominated at 01:44, 8 June 2022 (UTC).

• Let me take a look at this one. — Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 03:15, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

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 eligibility:

• Cited:
• Interesting:
• Other problems: - The first hook is not sourced well enough for such an WP:EXTRAORDINARY claim given that Catholic missionaries had been in the area and working with the Mossi people for multiple decades before Shirer arrived as a Pentecostal missionary. Alt 1 does not share a similar issue, so I don't see an issue with promoting that one except that it contains several formatting issues.

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Alt1 looks good to go save for a copyedit to bring it in line with WP:DYKHOOK. The article has a heavy reliance upon two works by Daher Kowalsk and cites a number of Ph.D. theses, but the subject appears to squeak by WP:NBASIC from my survey of sources. — Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 03:59, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

• Alt1 is fine with me. I will supplement the entry with additional sources that are not Daher Kowalski or dissertations. Including:
  • White 2016: asserts that the Shirers were the first Pentecostal missionaries in Ghana: http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/mission/v44n3/02.pdf
  • Mohr 2020: attributes the beginning of the Assemblies of God church in Nigeria to the missions work of the Shirers: https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/swc.2020.0307
  • Osinulu 2017: asserts that the Shirers introduced the Assemblies of God to the "Gold Coast" of Africa in 1931: https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12386

Am I supposed to copyedit the hook here? Like this?

• ... that Margaret Peoples Shirer established the first Assemblies of God missions in Ghana? Source: Daher Kowalski, R. (2020). Margaret Peoples Shirer: Explorer, translator, and proclaimer. In C. D. Hartung (Ed.), Claiming Notability for Women Activists in Religion (pp. 163–177). ATLA Open Press. https://doi.org/10.31046/atlaopenpress.40 Jaireeodell (talk) 13:03, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
  • That alternative hook passes all the DYK hook requirements—this looks ready for DYK. — Ⓜ️hawk10 (talk) 14:23, 8 June 2022 (UTC)