Talk:Rita Cox

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A fact from Rita Cox appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 3 April 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that storyteller Rita Cox thinks of stories as "gently echoed music" between the storyteller and the listener?

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

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Age

The cataloging information from the Library of Congress puts her birth date at 1939. There is another source, The Caribbean Camera that says she is older -- 92 as of 2022. I think the 1929/1930 date is correct because it would correspond to the mandatory retirement age from TPL of 65. Also, it would be odd for a source to put a wildly incorrect date, as opposed to an individual perhaps fabricating or putting the wrong date when submitting info to a publisher to be included in the Library of Congress cataloguing info. In one source, there is mention that Cox is reluctant to mention age. Almostds (talk) 03:07, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Timing of events

- Time from being hired as a children's librarian to becoming branch head at Parkdale is stated as six months, one year and the following year across three different sources. I've opted for saying something along the lines of "shortly after" to denote the time.

- The age for which Cox started working at her local library as a child varies from 10 to “11 or 12” across multiple sources. As such, I recommend indicating something like "around 11" as I've done in our original iteration of this article.

-For the Cumbayah Festival, a Globe and Mail article says that it started only in 1987, but the Smyth source says it was repeated that year and another source says the first one was 1984. It seems clear that 1984 is the first festival.

Almostds (talk) 03:14, 25 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Storytellers School of Toronto and Cumbayah festival ambiguity

- For Storytellers School of Toronto, Smyth source states she was chairperson and the Sarick source says co-chairperson. (The latter seems to be true but it would be good to get to the bottom of this.)

-Sarick says Cox was “A founder” of Cumbayah festival. Suggesting there were others. Van Rijn says the same. Serge says she “co-ordinated” the first festival, perhaps suggesting she was the only one?

Timeline of getting job at TPL - potentially contradictory sources

In the 1995 print issue of The Caribbean Camera, it states that "landing here [in Canada], she applied for a position with the Toronto Library and was accepted". This contradicts the interview with the Toronto Public Library Workers, where she indicates that she was picked up at airport by TPL staff. Perhaps she didn't have the job yet? Almostds (talk) 18:55, 27 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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 AirshipJungleman29 talk 15:52, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that storyteller Rita Cox thinks of stories as "gently echoed music" between the storyteller and listener? Source: https://balado-the-storysave-podcast.pinecast.co/episode/a790667a/rita-cox-the-gently-echoed-music
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Created by Almostds (talk). Self-nominated at 16:04, 28 February 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Rita Cox; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

This appears to be the fourth nomination for the nominator so no QPQ is needed yet. The article is new enough and easily long enough. I fixed a couple of minor grammar issues. Earwig found only proper noun phrases and properly marked quotes as copied; not a problem. Thoroughly sourced. The hook is interesting enough and properly sourced in the article, but I could not verify the two sources (one is offline and the other is a podcast rather than online text.) Good to go taking these sources AGF. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:52, 25 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]