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A fact from Notable Black American Women appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Jessie Carney Smith spent more than twenty years researching the three volumes of Notable Black American Women, which profiled 1,100 figures?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2021/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Notable Black American Women.

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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 SL93 (talk) 00:40, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Jessie Carney Smith spent over twenty years researching the three volumes of Notable Black American Women, which profiled 1,100 figures? Source: over twenty comes from twenty years to get to the first volume, at least one year for the others. Sources as listed in the article.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Peter Milliman
Comment: If this is a little over seven days, suggest allowing per Wikipedia:Did you know/Not exactly

Created by Eddie891 (talk). Self-nominated at 01:42, 18 March 2021 (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: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

Brief but informational article. No copyvios detected. Interesting hook (she was very dedicated). QPQ completed. I came across this on the WIR talk page earlier this week and was hoping it'd be nominated for DYK. TJMSmith (talk) 03:08, 18 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]