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A fact from Amy Sawyer appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 August 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Amy Sawyer (pictured) was the only woman to contribute to the more than a thousand illustrations created for H. Rider Haggard's works during his lifetime?

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 23:13, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Amy Sawyer

... that artist Amy Sawyer (pictured) was the only woman to illustrate a work by H. Rider Haggard during his lifetime?

Source: Holterhoff, Kate (2023). "Romance fiction, folk tales, and poetry: Amy Sawyer and the Arts and Crafts movement". Nineteenth-century women illustrators and cartoonists. Manchester University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.3078856 p 201: "This commission is remarkable in the graphic history of Rider Haggard. Well over one thousand unique illustrations were commissioned to accompany the approximately sixty romance fictions Haggard published during his lifetime, but of these only eighteen can be attributed to a woman artist – all by Sawyer for Heart of the World."

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Jenya Kazbekova

Created by Gamaliel (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 58 past nominations.

Gamaliel (talk) 19:49, 11 July 2024 (UTC).[reply]

This hook is good! I think it would be better if we pointed out how much Haggard (never heard of him!) has been illustrated. Suggest:
- ALT1: ... that of over a thousand illustrations created for H. Rider Haggard's works during his lifetime, Amy Sawyer (pictured) was the only woman to contribute?

Hope that works for you, Gamaliel :) theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 06:08, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

theleekycauldron I like it, it really highlights how unusual her contribution was. I made a few minor tweaks to ALT1. Gamaliel (talk) 19:49, 13 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook eligibility:

Cited: - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
Interesting:
Other problems:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: H. Rider Haggard wrote King Solomon's Mines. Article is barely long enough, but good to go. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 22:34, 31 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]