Talk:Betty Hanley

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A fact from Betty Hanley appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 September 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Betty Hanley, originally a Michigander, was appointed lampshade designer to the British royal family?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Betty Hanley.

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The result was: promoted by Sohom Datta talk 03:39, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that American lampshade maker Betty Hanley was made the Royal family of England's lamp designer?

Source: "Designer to the Royal Family" - Saffron Walden Weekly News

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Earl de Grey, Kingston upon Hull

Created by Silver seren (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 125 past nominations.

Silver seren^C 22:49, 10 August 2024 (UTC).[reply]

I'll review this nomination. I hope to have some comments ready soon. Phlsph7 (talk) 12:16, 11 August 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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The article was moved to mainspace on August 10, 2024. It has a prose size of 3343 characters. Each paragraph in the body of the article has at least one reference. WP:EARWIG did not find any copyvios. QPQ was done. The hook is cited, interesting, and not too long. I'm not sure that the term "curator" is correct in this context. Does one of the sources use it? Or should it be "supplier"? I suggest adding a short description. Phlsph7 (talk) 12:35, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Curator seemed like the closest term to explain what the Royal warrant had her doing. She was in charge of going through and deciding the lighting fixtures and accompaniments for all the lighting in Buckingham Palace (and for any of the Royal's homes that requested it). Supplier would imply she just handed over pieces from her shop, but her involvement seemed to be more than that. How about this, I made some changes to what terms were in the hook, going with the term actually used directly by the reference. Is that better, Phlsph7? Silver seren^C 15:04, 11 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Looks good. I was considering whether "was made" should be replaced with "became" but I don't think it makes much of a difference so I'll leave it to your judgement.

Approved.

Silver seren, I couldn't find the information for the "childhood and education" in the first reference. Could you double check and give some pointers on how I should verify this info. Sohom (talk) 11:31, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This reference? It's in the box on the left side of the page, Sohom Datta. Silver seren^C 15:37, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Ack, I did not see that :) Sohom (talk) 22:32, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]