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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on March 7, 2023.

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May 23, 2022	Good article nominee	Listed
July 10, 2022	Featured article candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 22, 2022.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that fashion journalists joked that it was "a miracle" that no models fell while walking the runway in the 12-inch (30 cm) armadillo shoes designed in 2010 by Alexander McQueen?

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 16:59, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that fashion journalists found it "miraculous" that no models fell while walking the runway in the 12-inch armadillo shoes designed in 2010 by Alexander McQueen? Source: Best shoes ever, Stiletto claws
- ALT1: ... that the 12-inch armadillo shoes designed in 2010 by Alexander McQueen have been compared to lobster claws, hooves, and alien pointe shoes? Source: Best shoes ever, Stiletto claws, Blood Beneath the Skin
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Johnny Hatley
- Comment: There are no free images of these things, trust me, I looked, don't ask, it'll make me cry.

Created by Premeditated Chaos (talk). Self-nominated at 05:17, 10 May 2022 (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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Technically, the sources in ALT0 say "a miracle" and "miraculously", rather than "miraculous". This may not be a major issue, as these are obviously different forms of the same word, but the exact word isn't "miraculous", either.

Nice work PMC. Before I approve this, I just have one question above about the use of quotation marks around the word "miraculous" in ALT1. Epicgenius (talk) 13:40, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review, Epic. Rather than try to tangle with MOS to figure out if I can do what I was doing, how does this sound?

ALT2: ... that fashion journalists joked that it was "a miracle" that no models fell while walking the runway in the 12-inch armadillo shoes designed in 2010 by Alexander McQueen?

Can also sub "wrote that it was" if "joked that it was" feels too editorial. I suppose I could also de-quote, since at least two sources directly used variations on "miracle" to describe their relief. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 21:06, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- @Premeditated Chaos: ALT2 works fine for me, as does ALT1. Epicgenius (talk) 22:53, 16 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

spelling

There's a mix of British and American English in this article. Which way is it going to go, BrEng, per MOS:TIES? Spicemix (talk) 00:43, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to make it British. It's not on purpose, I'm just Canadian and I can never stick to one or the other :P ♠PMC♠ (talk) 01:30, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

main picture

is anyone gonna do something about the fact that this article has a picture of a flaccid penis NyCuba (talk) 03:18, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The page is now protected for a couple of days, puts a stop to IP vandalism. FranklinOfNull (talk) 03:23, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, WHAT??

I would think, as a featured article, we might want to add at least a single picture of someone wearing the shoe. Red Slash 21:44, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My thoughts exactly. The picture showing Lady Gaga but not her feet is rather pointless. --2003:C0:8F16:F000:1585:CB43:3373:D7DE (talk) 21:53, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

There aren't any freely licensed photos of that, and as there are already two non-free images in the article (the shoe itself and the sketch), I don't think we can justify adding a third. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 22:29, 7 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]