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A fact from Salma (writer) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 December 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Salma wrote some of her works while sitting on the toilet, on pieces of paper ripped from calendars and notebooks?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/December. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Salma (writer).

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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 Yoninah (talk) 14:28, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Salma

~~... that an acclaimed writer wrote some of her works while sitting on the toilet, on pieces of paper scraped off from calendars and notebooks?~~ Source: Subramanian, Lakshmi (3 May 2015). "Songs of fortitude". The Week.

Created by Tayi Arajakate (talk). Self-nominated at 23:23, 17 November 2020 (UTC).[reply]

Why aren't you mentioning the writer's name? And obviously "a writer" "wrote". Here is an alt:
ALT1: ... that Salma (pictured) wrote some of her works while sitting on the toilet, on pieces of paper scraped off from calendars and notebooks? Yoninah (talk) 23:32, 28 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Article was created on 16 Nov and nominated the next day. It is longer than it is required to be, well sourced, and appears to be written neutrally. Earwig is not triggered. I like ALT1, and the article gives more context as to why a toilet, with three inline citations at the end of the sentence. There is a freely licensed and well cropped image that we could use as a lead hook so even though it wasn't included by the nominator, I'm adding it to the hook as it is indeed freely licensed and well cropped. This is Tayi Arajakate's first DYK, so a review is not required, but we do encourage you to experience QPQ reviews to help you get the hang of DYK. – Muboshgu (talk) 18:07, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Muboshgu, Thank you for the review. I do plan on doing a QPQ review, just wanted to see how the process works before that. One question, I also plan on expanding the article more as there is a lot more that can be added or is missing currently, would it be inappropriate to do so before it gets promoted? Tayi Arajakate _Talk 21:11, 29 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have expanded the article a bit more, in case if it requires one to check if the new additions have issues. Tayi Arajakate _Talk 10:01, 2 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Cyclone Gati Tayi Arajakate _Talk 14:11, 3 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Salma (writer)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Whiteguru (talk · contribs) 05:53, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Starts GA Review; the review will follow the same sections of the Article. --Whiteguru (talk) 05:53, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Observations

Reference 7 is brilliant.

Panchayat is better described as a village council. Consider.

women are expected to get married and become homemakers, whereas looking after the family should be the joint responsibility of both partners,

adds that women need the freedom to choose and act without fear, and that they do not need a man's permission to do so.

This woman is likely to be in the public domain for quite some time as author, writer, poet, and champion of women's issues. A recommendation (for consideration) where references have been archived, it is probably useful to use archived references to prevent link rot.

Final

GA review (see here for what the criteria are, and here for what they are not)

It is reasonably well written.
a (prose, spelling, and grammar): b (MoS for lead, layout, word choice, fiction, and lists): follows MOS
It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (reference section): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR): d (copyvio and plagiarism): very well referenced
It is broad in its coverage. considers different reviews, considers different responses from society and culture, yes
a (major aspects): b (focused):
It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias: for a searing woman author and poet, yes, NPOV
It is stable.
No edit wars, etc.: very stable
It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate. Yes, CC-by-SA
a (images are tagged and non-free content have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions): Yes, CC-by-SA
Overall:

Excellent English expression and writing. A well-referenced article. --Whiteguru (talk) 06:51, 20 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Passed

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Issue with 3 different birthdates

Hello,

After the Wikidata merge, her date of birth data now has 3 different years… we should investigate & if possible fix the date on both Wikidata and all the wikipedias (unless if we can’t find a very thruthworthy source).

Yours,

2A02:2788:22A:100D:8873:60ED:2F66:ED3D (talk) 13:18, 24 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The date of births on the Tamil (19 December 1967) and German (1972) wikis are completely unsourced. I tried searching for these dates but haven't been able to find any sources so they should probably be replaced with 1968 which is cited in this article. Tayi Arajakate _Talk 18:29, 3 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]