Talk:Percival Borde

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A fact from Percival Borde appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 September 2026 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Percival Borde was known to dance in a dashiki as a professor at Binghamton University?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Did you know archive/2026/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Percival Borde.

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Latest comment: 26 days ago3 comments3 people in discussion

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The result was: promoted by Zzz plant (talk) 03:00, 7 September 2026 (UTC)Reply

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... that Percival Borde was known to dance in a dashiki as a professor at Binghamton University? Source: One of the Binghamton school's most popular teachers, he is remembered as a big, exuberant man who danced through the classroom in a dashiki, prod-ding his students on with a big stick and an inexhaustible fund of good-humored sarcasm.
- ALT0a: ... that Percival Borde was known to dance in African dress as a professor at Binghamton University? Source: Same as ALT0
- ALT1: ... that Percival Borde was known as “a leading male figure in Afro-dance”? Source: Raves also came from the African-American press, and Borde’s arrival as a leading male figure in Afro-dance was confirmed.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bunny Fabrique
- Comment: In case the dashiki doesn't get past DYKINT: I feel that "African dress" might pass WP:SKYBLUE.

Moved to mainspace by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 171 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 03:50, 14 August 2026 (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:

Recently created article. Hook is interesting and cited. No copyvio detected. QPQs done. I only reviewed ALT0 since I assume that is your preferred hook anyway. Nice work. ~WikiOriginal-9~ (talk) 13:05, 31 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

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