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A fact from George C. Brownell appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 16 January 2024, and was viewed approximately 6,072 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that while George C. Brownell played no part in the Oregon land fraud scandal, a published cartoon (pictured) showed him as the "Pretty Moth" that flew too close to the land fraud limelight?
It appears that this article's first major contributor chose DMY dates for the body and the citations, with a few exceptions (as in the infobox). And then GhostInTheMachinechanged the body to use primarily mdy dates, presumably because of MOS:DATETIES, although they missed a few. I changed the rest of the body based on the Use mdy dates template that GhostInTheMachine added, without looking at the history. This may have been a mistake on my part, per MOS:DATERET. Now the body is MDY and the citations are DMY, which is probably not what we want. Orygun, can you please let us know your preference? – Jonesey95 (talk) 14:34, 21 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
While most Americans use the MDY date format, I have always used the DMY format. It is used by U. S. military and the State Department for official documents like passports, so I am not alone in using that format. Changing the article's date format to MDY fine with me. My goal is to create B level content. While the article hasn't been assessed yet, I think it meets the B level standard regardless of which date format is used. Regarding the footnote dates, I think that's something that can wait until someone decides to upgrade the article to GA status.--Orygun (talk) 08:48, 22 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Nice work, @Orygun: you've done great research and pulled in a lot of information. IMO it would be best to put some of that detail into other articles, and streamline this one a little bit; specifically, the info about the 19th Oregon Legislative Assembly isn't, for the most part, about Brownell, so it feels extraneous here. However, you have found a good detailed info I didn't when I wrote that article, so it would be great to have that info in the article about the legislative session. I feel like this article is on the fence between C and B class, I've assessed as "C" because I feel that it could be improved by tightening it up and moving some of that info elsewhere, but it's possible "B" is more appropriate even without that change. Nice work. -Pete Forsyth (talk) 03:53, 3 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
