A fact from Mary V. R. Thayer appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 September 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Mary V. R. Thayer was briefly arrested on suspicion of spying after abandoning a 1929 business trip in the Soviet Union to explore the Caucasus?
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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
Other problems: - It'd be nice if we could add an alt that includes information about her getting arrested under suspicion of being a spy.
QPQ: Done.
Overall: Article is new enough, long enough and cited. No copyvio and qpq is done. Hook is cited and interesting but it'd be cool to incorporate some of her other stuff (like the arrest under suspicion of being a spy). After reading some of the newspaper articles about her, I almost wonder if she really was a spy after all and her socialite life was the perfect cover... BuySomeApples (talk) 19:59, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
ALT1 ... that Mary V. R. Thayer was briefly arrested on suspicion of spying after abandoning a 1929 business trip in the Soviet Union to explore the Caucasus?
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- It'd be nice if we could add an alt that includes information about her getting arrested under suspicion of being a spy.
Article is new enough, long enough and cited. No copyvio and qpq is done. Hook is cited and interesting but it'd be cool to incorporate some of her other stuff (like the arrest under suspicion of being a spy). After reading some of the newspaper articles about her, I almost wonder if she really was a spy after all and her socialite life was the perfect cover... BuySomeApples (talk) 19:59, 31 August 2021 (UTC)