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I am Wikimedian in Residence at CUNY, and I'll be contributing to this article alongside participants at the Baruch Black History Month Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon and others in the CUNY community. Pharos (talk) 19:48, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

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... that the City University of New York SEEK Program was adopted after a "midnight march" led by Shirley Chisholm and Percy Sutton, demanding it in exchange for their support of the Assembly Speaker?

Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Shirley_Chisholm/M2P2EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA83

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Pharos (talk) 17:07, 1 March 2026 (UTC).

Article is new enough, long enough, and cited to reliable sources throughout. Hook fact is verifiable, but I think the hook is not all that clear (particularly to non-Americans). When I initially read "Assembly Speaker" I assumed it was a post in the CUNY senate not the New York State Assembly. Non-American readers are also not likely to know who Shirley Chisholm and Percy Sutton are, and the current hook is not well suited for a global audience as required by WP:DYKHOOKSTYLE. There are far too many links to pages other than the target nominated article. I think we need to work on crafting a hook less dependent on links to other pages in order to successfully direct traffic to the CUNY SEEK page. The midnight march could still be featured but crafted in a different way. I think focusing on the CUNY program as an affirmative action program could help and dropping the names of Chisholm and Sutton altogether would be ideal as these are names non-Americans and younger Americans are not likely to recognize. Additionally the article is currently not compliant with MOS:LEAD. There are many facts in the lead section not articulated in the body of the article. The lead section is supposed to contain only facts communicated in the body. The article needs some reworking to move content from the lead into the body, and then restructure the lead as a summary of the content expressed in the body. I shouldn't be seeing cited claims in the lead section that aren't expressed below the lead. The lead needs to summarize only. Until that happens, this fails the presentability component of WP:DYKCOMPLETE. Please propose alternative hooks below, fix the lead, and then ping me. Best.4meter4 (talk) 17:21, 10 March 2026 (UTC)

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