Template:Did you know nominations/Felton Grandison Clark

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The result was: promoted by Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 07:48, 21 July 2018 (UTC)

Felton Grandison Clark

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• ... that by the end of Felton Grandison Clark 's tenure as the president of Southern University in 1969, it had become America's largest HBCU? "Dr. Felton G. Clark". The Tampa Tribune. July 7, 1970. p. 35. Retrieved June 17, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.

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Created by Zigzig20s (talk). Self-nominated at 04:39, 18 June 2018 (UTC).

• Drive-by grammatical comment: Grammatically, the "it" after the comma is referring to "Felton Grandison Clark's tenure". The linked abbreviation is also obscure. Yoninah (talk) 00:21, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

No, it refers to Southern University. Is there a better way to put it please?Zigzig20s (talk) 00:23, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

• ALT1: ... that in his 30 years as president, Felton Grandison Clark expanded Southern University into America's largest historically black university by enrollment? Yoninah (talk) 00:41, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

OK. Could we mention 1969 though?Zigzig20s (talk) 00:52, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

• Do you mean:
• ALT2: ... that by 1969, president Felton Grandison Clark had expanded Southern University into America's largest historically black university by enrollment? (It kind of loses context this way.) Yoninah (talk) 00:55, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Yes, much better.Zigzig20s (talk) 00:58, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

OK. ALT2 ready for full review. Yoninah (talk) 01:04, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

• This article is new enough and long enough. The ALT2 hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright issues. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:41, 3 July 2018 (UTC)