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A fact from Queenie Newall appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 June 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that at 53 years and 275 days, Queenie Newall (pictured) is the oldest female athlete to have won a gold medal at an Olympic Games?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2012/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Queenie Newall.

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Contradictory information

The article says that "Her Olympic gold medal was the only medal won by a female British archer until Alison Williamson won the bronze in the women's individual competition at the 2004 Summer Olympics." But it also says: "The entire field competing in the women's archery were British." Thus one would assume that all the medals won in 1908 were by British archers, which is indeed the case. I suppose one could argue that Lottie Dod wasn't an "archer" or that Beatrice Hill-Lowe wasn't British (she was technically Irish), but at the very least, this would be confusing without clarification. And if we're splitting hairs by saying that Beatrice Hill-Lowe was Irish instead of British, it should not say that "the entire field... were British". Kaldari (talk) 04:13, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The full sentence from the source is "Alison Williamson 's archery bronze was the first by a UK female since Queenie Newall in 1908" which is obviously false, since Dod was a UK female and won a silver medal. The sentence is poorly written anyway (Did Newall win a bronze or gold medal?) and should probably be removed or rephrased as "Williamson was the first woman to win a medal in archery since the 1908 Olympic games." Froggerlaura ^ribbit 04:54, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for providing the source quote. I've fixed the wording accordingly. Kaldari (talk) 05:36, 9 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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