Talk:Penny Way

A fact from Penny Way appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 May 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that windsurfer Penny Way won the British qualification event for the 1996 Summer Olympics with two races to spare?

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Did you know nomination

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.

The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 17:09, 18 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that in 1982, Penny Way competed in and won the British Olympic qualifying windsurfing event, but could not compete at the Olympics as they only had a male competition at the time? Source: [1]
- ALT1: ... that windsurfer Penny Way won the British qualification event for the 1996 Summer Olympics with two races to spare? Source: [2]
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/TBA

5x expanded by Joseph2302 (talk). Self-nominated at 16:17, 25 April 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: - Not yet completed
Overall: Article is new enough and long enough, as it was expanded more than 5x today. Everything looks to be cited, including the hook, which is interesting as well. Earwig looks good and the article reads well. This one is good to go pending the completion of QPQ. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 21:25, 25 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for reviewing this PCN02WPS- I wasn't expecting it to be reviewed so quickly. I have done a QPQ now: Template:Did you know nominations/2022 EuroLeague Playoffs. Joseph2302 (talk) 08:05, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I appreciate you doing a QPQ of one of my nominations! We are good to go. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 22:38, 26 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Birth name

Intro says "Helen E. "Penny" Wilson (née Way...""

But later on the article says "her birth name was Helen Wilson...", which contradicts the intro.

Peace קיפודנחש (aka kipod) (talk) 02:34, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed typo with the surnames sorry, the source [3] clearly says her first surname was Way. Joseph2302 (talk) 07:28, 5 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]