Template:Did you know nominations/Eddie Canales

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... that efforts by Eddie Canales and other activists led to the discovery that some bodies of undocumented immigrants in Texas had been buried in shopping bags?

Source: Eddie Canales, who campaigned to prevent migrant deaths, dies at 76, Washington Post: "For years, when unidentified bodies were recovered in the county, they were buried, at times in unmarked graves. Mr. Canales and other activists helped push for the enforcement of a Texas law mandating that unidentified remains undergo DNA testing, and championed the exhumation of unidentified bodies from the county cemetery... The effort led to a horrifying revelation when researchers exhuming a mass burial site at the cemetery found remains “in trash bags, shopping bags, body bags, or no containers at all,”"

ALT1: ... that Eddie Canales set up nearly 200 water stations along an area of the US-Mexico border to save the lives of undocumented immigrants? Source: Eddie Canales, who set up nearly 200 water stations along U.S.-Mexico border, dead at 76, CBC: "He spent much of the last decade of his life travelling along the U.S. southern border to place and refill large barrels of water for those making the dangerous — and often deadly — journey across the arid desert to the U.S... The South Texas Human Rights Center estimates he placed nearly 200 of these water stations across seven counties..."
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Created by Mrfoogles (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Mrfoogles (talk) 22:35, 4 September 2024 (UTC).

Note from author: Would appreciate some guidance on how many wikilinks should be added, it seems like DYKs have more of those but I'm not sure exactly how much more. Mrfoogles (talk) 22:47, 4 September 2024 (UTC)
- Just took a quick look at the article, and I don't think biographical articles would normally have so mnay links right at the bottom - I think it's more usual to have e.g. all the obituaries as inline citations Lajmmoore (talk) 08:25, 2 October 2024 (UTC)
  - I was mostly using that as a place to put sources I found but hadn't used: sometimes Further reading sections are useful to editors who are looking for sources to expand the article, especially on stubs. But it is maybe a little excessive here considering sources are easy to find. Moved it to the talk page. Mrfoogles (talk) 19:57, 2 October 2024 (UTC)