The result was: promoted by
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Moved to mainspace by GRuban ( talk). Self-nominated at 16:01, 1 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Ky Schevers; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
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Conservatives took her story to make their own political pointsis justified without a secondary source giving that analysis. I don't think a summary sentence is needed there at all, so would suggest just cutting; otherwise, reword more neutrally, e.g. Conservative commentators took interest in Schevers's story. I also would suggest changing
and convinced(regarding Keira Bell) to simply prompting, as "convinced" can have negative connotations.
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My biggest problem with this article,
GRuban, is that you wrote it and not me. But I'll settle for reviewing it. :D
(#twinning on "BLPs on trans people which cite Evan Urquhart", btw.)
So, regarding the hook, there's the misinterpretation issue raised above, and also stylistically could be better, I think. Namely, the "transgender rights activist" pseudo-title makes it kind of clunky, and also means a large percentage of it is blue. So I'm going to suggest
I hesitated slightly on picfree
here because it appears to be by Lee Leveille but uploaded to healthliberationnow.com by Schevers. However, Leveille is
listed as co-maintainer of the blog, which I think is sufficient evidence of consent to the release under CC-BY SA.
Again, really interesting article. Looking forward to seeing it on the Main Page once we've tidied up these two small concerns. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 06:08, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
@ Tamzin:: Point by point:
ALT3 ... that transgender activist Ky Schevers (pictured) transitioned to male, detransitioned to female, then retransitioned as transmasculine genderqueer? -- GRuban ( talk) 19:03, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
:P
Although we do seem to have the same number of trans bios, so, not sure how much more I know than you.As to the matter at hand, I'm happy with all prose changes. Regarding the hook, I feel like it's still misleading to lead with "transgender activist", because she wasn't transgender when she transitioned (sorta by definition). Also wouldn't "transgender" be redundant with the rest there? What about something that starts
in medias res like
The result was: promoted by
Bruxton (
talk) 01:00, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
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Moved to mainspace by GRuban ( talk). Self-nominated at 16:01, 1 April 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Ky Schevers; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
General: Article is new enough and long enough |
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Policy compliance:
Conservatives took her story to make their own political pointsis justified without a secondary source giving that analysis. I don't think a summary sentence is needed there at all, so would suggest just cutting; otherwise, reword more neutrally, e.g. Conservative commentators took interest in Schevers's story. I also would suggest changing
and convinced(regarding Keira Bell) to simply prompting, as "convinced" can have negative connotations.
Hook eligibility:
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px. |
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QPQ: Done. |
Overall:
My biggest problem with this article,
GRuban, is that you wrote it and not me. But I'll settle for reviewing it. :D
(#twinning on "BLPs on trans people which cite Evan Urquhart", btw.)
So, regarding the hook, there's the misinterpretation issue raised above, and also stylistically could be better, I think. Namely, the "transgender rights activist" pseudo-title makes it kind of clunky, and also means a large percentage of it is blue. So I'm going to suggest
I hesitated slightly on picfree
here because it appears to be by Lee Leveille but uploaded to healthliberationnow.com by Schevers. However, Leveille is
listed as co-maintainer of the blog, which I think is sufficient evidence of consent to the release under CC-BY SA.
Again, really interesting article. Looking forward to seeing it on the Main Page once we've tidied up these two small concerns. -- Tamzin cetacean needed (she|they|xe) 06:08, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
@ Tamzin:: Point by point:
ALT3 ... that transgender activist Ky Schevers (pictured) transitioned to male, detransitioned to female, then retransitioned as transmasculine genderqueer? -- GRuban ( talk) 19:03, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
:P
Although we do seem to have the same number of trans bios, so, not sure how much more I know than you.As to the matter at hand, I'm happy with all prose changes. Regarding the hook, I feel like it's still misleading to lead with "transgender activist", because she wasn't transgender when she transitioned (sorta by definition). Also wouldn't "transgender" be redundant with the rest there? What about something that starts
in medias res like