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A fact from Margaret Isobel Cooper appeared on Wikipedia's
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check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
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Free of
copyright violations,
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close paraphrasing: - The image caption could be rewritten and condensed. It was the closest thing to a copyvio; the other matches were titles or names that can't be rephrased.
Other problems: - @
Whispyhistory:ALT reads a bit roughly to me, I would suggest "recruited" be changed to "was a recruiter" or "recruited women" if that seems appropriate. In ALT1 placement of "during the Second World War," is a little awkward and it's easy to assume both duties were during WWII, one after the other. I would suggest moving the phrase to read: ... that Margaret Cooper travelled 55,000 miles across India recruiting for the
Women's Royal Indian Naval Service during the Second World War, then worked for
MI6? For ALT3, the source I could view quoted her as saying only "…for the Indian girls, it was the experience of a lifetime and broadened their outlook considerably." Since I couldn't confirm the link to emancipation, and the source notes that this was a subjective opinion, my preference would be for an amended ALT or ALT1. I'm happy to approve either of them with minor rephrasing as suggested above.
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These hooks are now okay. My personal preference is for ALTa or ALT1a over ALT3. Nice work!
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talk) 19:38, 19 January 2023 (UTC)reply
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A fact from Margaret Isobel Cooper appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 February 2023 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
Free of
copyright violations,
plagiarism, and
close paraphrasing: - The image caption could be rewritten and condensed. It was the closest thing to a copyvio; the other matches were titles or names that can't be rephrased.
Other problems: - @
Whispyhistory:ALT reads a bit roughly to me, I would suggest "recruited" be changed to "was a recruiter" or "recruited women" if that seems appropriate. In ALT1 placement of "during the Second World War," is a little awkward and it's easy to assume both duties were during WWII, one after the other. I would suggest moving the phrase to read: ... that Margaret Cooper travelled 55,000 miles across India recruiting for the
Women's Royal Indian Naval Service during the Second World War, then worked for
MI6? For ALT3, the source I could view quoted her as saying only "…for the Indian girls, it was the experience of a lifetime and broadened their outlook considerably." Since I couldn't confirm the link to emancipation, and the source notes that this was a subjective opinion, my preference would be for an amended ALT or ALT1. I'm happy to approve either of them with minor rephrasing as suggested above.
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
These hooks are now okay. My personal preference is for ALTa or ALT1a over ALT3. Nice work!
Mary Mark Ockerbloom (
talk) 19:38, 19 January 2023 (UTC)reply