Template:Did you know nominations/Robert L. Rankin

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The result was: promoted by DimensionalFusion talk 13:07, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

Robert L. Rankin

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... that a spokesman for the Kaw Nation credited Robert L. Rankin with single-handedly preserving their language?

Source: "If it wasn't for his work, we wouldn't have our language," said Jim Pepper Henry, a Kaw tribal member who is now director and CEO of the Heard Museum of Native Cultures and Art in Phoenix. "He single-handed preserved our language. … You can't put a price on something like that."

ALT1: ... that after Robert L. Rankin was cremated, his wife gave the ashes to the Kaw Nation? Source: When Robert Rankin, a linguistics professor from the University of Kansas who spent much of his career researching and documenting the Kaw language, died last week, his wife called the Kaw Nation in Oklahoma to tell them the news. She also offered to give the Kaw Nation his ashes, Kaw tribal leaders said. [...] The gift of Mr. Rankin's ashes is a high honor, Pepper Henry said.
ALT2: ... that Robert L. Rankin became interested in linguistics after hearing different languages from around the world on his ham radio? Source: His interest in the study of languages came from an interest in ham radio. "Hearing those voices coming from Europe and Asia and all these places and wanting to understand everything that everybody said that sort of piqued my interest," Mr. Rankin told Jewell Willhite in 2006 in an oral history interview.
ALT3: ... that when Robert L. Rankin recited part of the Lord's Prayer in the Kansa language, it shocked one of its last speakers into believing it could be preserved? Source: "When we met the next afternoon, I said I had some questions about some of the words in the Lord's Prayer," Rankin said. “When I opened my notebook and started reading what I'd transcribed, her mouth dropped open, her eyes got big and she said – exclaimed, actually – 'How did you do that?' She couldn't believe it." Rowe had grown up believing her tribe's language could not be written and, after her death, was sure to disappear.
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Created by ThaesOfereode (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 21 past nominations.

ThaesOfereode (talk) 20:47, 9 June 2025 (UTC).

ALT0 is really interesting (at least to me), sourced to a reliable source, and verified. Article and hook easily passes WP:DYKCRIT, I see no copyvio problems, reliable sources are used too, created by nominator and has a whooping 99.6% authorship, finely written in a neutral sense. The 2 required QPQ is done. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 17:32, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

@Vanderwaalforces: Thanks for the review! ThaesOfereode (talk) 21:53, 14 June 2025 (UTC)