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A fact from Marguerite Littman appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 November 2020 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in 1997,
Princess Diana donated her entire wardrobe to a charity auction organized by
AIDS activist Marguerite Littman, which raised more than $3 million?
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.
Here is a review: New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. I added a "citation needed" tag to the beginning of one very long paragraph where the source would be welcome, and I also tagged the lead as being too short per
WP:LEAD; please add more to summarize the article and indicate her notability.
I've struck ALT0 because it contains way too many facts, but ALT1 is great. ALT1 hook ref verified and cited inline.
Yoninah, Thanks so much for the review. I was hoping to use the Princess Diana bit since it has more of a global appeal rather than the second one. Happy to work on trimming ALT0 blurb.
ALT2: ... that American-British socialite and HIV/AIDS activist Marguerite Littman had gotten Princess Diana to donate her entire wardrobe for a charity auction that raised over $3 million in 1997?
I expanded the lede and have also added the citation for the first line in that longish paragraph. Unfortunately, could not find a free image that satisfies WP requirements when I had given it a search a couple of days ago.
@
Ktin: Thank you for expanding the lead and adding the cite. I added a fair-use image from 1987. You could go with ALT2, but it really is top-heavy on the descriptions of Littman and also uses the rather unencyclopedic word gotten. How would you like to shorten it further?
Yoninah (
talk)
16:57, 16 November 2020 (UTC)reply
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A fact from Marguerite Littman appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 November 2020 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that in 1997,
Princess Diana donated her entire wardrobe to a charity auction organized by
AIDS activist Marguerite Littman, which raised more than $3 million?
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.
Here is a review: New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. I added a "citation needed" tag to the beginning of one very long paragraph where the source would be welcome, and I also tagged the lead as being too short per
WP:LEAD; please add more to summarize the article and indicate her notability.
I've struck ALT0 because it contains way too many facts, but ALT1 is great. ALT1 hook ref verified and cited inline.
Yoninah, Thanks so much for the review. I was hoping to use the Princess Diana bit since it has more of a global appeal rather than the second one. Happy to work on trimming ALT0 blurb.
ALT2: ... that American-British socialite and HIV/AIDS activist Marguerite Littman had gotten Princess Diana to donate her entire wardrobe for a charity auction that raised over $3 million in 1997?
I expanded the lede and have also added the citation for the first line in that longish paragraph. Unfortunately, could not find a free image that satisfies WP requirements when I had given it a search a couple of days ago.
@
Ktin: Thank you for expanding the lead and adding the cite. I added a fair-use image from 1987. You could go with ALT2, but it really is top-heavy on the descriptions of Littman and also uses the rather unencyclopedic word gotten. How would you like to shorten it further?
Yoninah (
talk)
16:57, 16 November 2020 (UTC)reply