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A fact from Joseph Buh appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 September 2025 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Joseph Buh(pictured), a Slovene Catholic missionary priest in Minnesota, was called Meshidong or 'Long Beard' by the Ojibwe?
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... that Joseph Buh, the first Catholic priest to hold religious services in White Earth, was called Meshi-dong or 'Long beard' by the Ojibwe?
Source: Nickname: Coleman, Bernard; LaBud, Verona (1972). Masinaigans-The Little Book: A Biography of Monsignor Joseph F. Buh, Slovenian Missionary in America, 1864-1922. Saint Paul, MN: North Central Publishing Company. p. 238. To [the Indians] Buh was affectionately called Meshi-dong (the Beard, the Long Beard, or the Bearded One).; Religious services at White Earth: "Father Buh Receives the Insignia of Monseignor Extended by Leo XIII". Duluth Evening Herald. 27 December 1899. p. 8. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
Comment: This is, technically, a "first" hook that would require extraordinary sourcing, but the rather unextraordinary nature of the "first" and historical context would have me personally believe the source provided is sufficient.
Moved to mainspace by Darth Stabro (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 48 past nominations.
Interesting life, on good sources, offline source accepted AGF. The hook works for me, but I wonder if his Slovac origin wasn't more interesting than the "first" thing. Want to try, Darth Stabro? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:12, 29 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
