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A fact from Killing of John T. Williams appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 December 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the shooting of Native American woodcarver John T. Williams by a police officer was found to be unjustified?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Shooting of John T. Williams.

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Huge hole in biography section

This section, ostensibly biographical, contains nothing about its central character's early life, only mentioning "his family". Who were his parents? Where did he grow up? What education? Siblings? These facts are likely known (clearly, some information has been obtained from the family), and should be included. If the family is refusing to provide this information, the article should say so. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 14:42, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]