Talk:Cities Church

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. You can locate your hook here. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Darth Stabro (talk) 14:16, 2 March 2026 (UTC)

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Cities Church

• ... that a 1994 law protecting access to abortion clinics was the basis for charges against demonstrators who disrupted a service at a Minnesota church (pictured)?

• Source: "Nine people, including former CNN anchor Don Lemon and another journalist — have been charged with violating two different federal laws in connection with the protest that interrupted a worship service at a Minnesota church earlier this month. The group that barged into a worship service that Sunday was upset that the head of a local field office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement serves as a pastor.... The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances law, known as the FACE Act for short, was passed in 1994 to help ensure that patients seeking care at an abortion clinic — as well as the doctors and nurses who work there — could safely access the facilities that often draw protests. It followed incidents of violence targeting clinic workers. A Republican-sponsored clause that provided for penalties for disruptions of worship services was also incorporated into the law." Associated Press

• • ALT1: ... that a Minnesota church building (pictured) is considered a "historic non-operating cemetery" because a former priest was buried in a crypt underneath the sanctuary? Source: "Also staying is John Wright, a priest and the rector of the church at the time of its construction. When Wright died in 1919, he was buried in a crypt under the sanctuary. That makes the crawl space under the altar a 'historic non-operating cemetery,' meaning the body has to stay there with the building." St. Paul Pioneer Press
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Moved to mainspace by Dclemens1971 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 43 past nominations.

Dclemens1971 (talk) 20:06, 11 February 2026 (UTC).

• I'll review this

Gb321 (talk) 00:29, 14 February 2026 (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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: DYK is good and I did some copyediting to the article itself to make sure all is good. I also added a piped link to ALT0, which I think is preferable to ALT1. The article easily meets 5x expansion required for a DYK. Earwig detected nothing of note. Gb321 (talk) 05:24, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

• • Note to promoter and queuer: I believe wikilinking the abortion clinic access law will divert views substantially from the boldlinked article and I'd ask that you do not include it. The law is wikilinked from the lead section and the main text of the boldlinked article so readers can get to it from there. Thanks. Dclemens1971 (talk) 15:51, 16 February 2026 (UTC)

I'm fine with it being removed. It's a solid DYK with or without it. Since I added it, I'll remove it

• Comment from nominator: I will be on a wikibreak for a few weeks starting 18 February, but will try to check in weekly. If my attention is needed more quickly by a promoter or queuer, I have email enabled. Thanks! Dclemens1971 (talk) 13:40, 17 February 2026 (UTC)