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A fact from Selene Mahri appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 October 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Finnish-American model Selene Mahri(pictured) married three millionaires and is credited with inventing the saying "Marriage is a question of give and take. You give. I take"?
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... that Finnish-American model Selene Mahri(pictured) married three millionaires and is credited with inventing the saying, "Marriage is a question of give and take. You give. I take."? Source: here ("Selene was never at a loss for words either, and is said to have invented the saying, "Marriage is a question of give and take. You give. I take.' It may have sounded terribly amusing huddled behind a silver bucked of champagne at El Morocco.")
Overall: Nice job on well-researched and interesting article and hook about a WWII-era top glamour model, which with added picture would make for a good lead-in hook. StonyBrookbabble04:28, 20 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
On balance, I am inclined to believe dignitymemorial.com when they say Weaver died at the age of 95. The site is used in 200 articles. Without paying a fee, I don't know what data spokeo.com are using, so I would ignore it. One article quotes Spokeo, saying "However, an assertion exists on the social network aggregator website, Spokeo, that ..."
I am inclined to believe it myself, especially because of the matching birth date. However, the name in that combination does not appear in the article, and surprisingly to me, this name is not as uncommon as I thought. Without having the usual reliable source, imagine if we got it wrong. StonyBrookbabble17:52, 24 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
The Who's Who reference I added says that William Merritt Weaver married Solveig Eklund, which would make Solveig Eklund Weaver a likely married name. The other link does have a different date of birth.
Obituary is without a doubt her. I've added to the article seeing as there seems to be a consensus. Spokeo is a data harvesting site (like Clustrmaps or MyLife) and it is not reliable. They poach stats from residency records, but if they're not informed of a death, the person remains living in their "records". I've found individuals on there that died over 20 years ago listed as "living". --Jkaharper (talk) 11:20, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]