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 Kingsif (talk) 20:22, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

DYK toolbox
DYK check Reviewer instructions Earwig's Copyvio Detector QPQ check Character count A Simple Word Counter Reviewers' template Find sources (notability) Hook length

Amasa Eaton

(

)

Eaton c. 1900

... that Amasa Eaton (pictured) wrote the first law review article to be cited in a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States? [1] (p. 788) ("This first happened in 1897 when Justice Edward White referred in his dissenting opinion ... to an article ... written by Amasa Eaton")
- ALT1:... that Amasa Eaton (pictured) was first elected to municipal government in Providence, Rhode Island, two years after graduating from Brown University? [2] ("As early as 1863, but two years after his graduation from Brown University, he was the successful candidate from his ward to the North Providence Town Council ...")

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Types Riot
Comment: Throwing in the image since I was delighted to find it, but certainly not wedded to it. By my count the article has 1691 bytes of prose at the moment, so above the limit but by no means massive. Hoping to find some more info to build it out.

Created by AleatoryPonderings (talk). Self-nominated at 03:23, 29 April 2021 (UTC).

New article, well-cited, and long enough. Both hooks work (I like the original best), and image is PD. hinnk (talk) 04:37, 12 May 2021 (UTC)