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A fact from Les Purce appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 January 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Pocatello mayor Les Purce was the first African-American political officeholder in Idaho?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2025/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Thomas Les Purce.

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 12:04, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Pocatello mayor Thomas Les Purce was the first African-American officeholder in Idaho?

Source: "election as the first African American elected official in the state of Idaho, where he served as a mayor and council member for the City of Pocatello" [1]

"Thomas L. Purce, a 29‐year‐old vocational education instructor, become Idaho's first black Mayor today." [2]

- Reviewed:

Moved to mainspace by Samoht27 (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

-Samoht27 (talk) 15:56, 20 December 2024 (UTC).[reply]

No QPQ needed. Article is in decent shape, long enough, and is fully sourced with no evidence of copyvio. The sources check out and seem appropriate magnitude for a "first (X)" hook, and are also used for the hook in-article. Hook is pretty interesting. Looks good to me! Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 07:00, 24 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi @Samoht27: I hope you don't mind, but I've renamed this to simply "Les Purce", which seems to match what the sources in the article call him, even though his full name started with Thomas. If you object to this please let me know and we can discuss further. Cheers — Amakuru (talk) 15:12, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]