Talk:Working For Gardeners Association

A fact from Working For Gardeners Association appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 May 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that although Surrey County Council created over 250 smallholdings for men after the First World War, it was the Women's Farm and Garden Society which created those for women?

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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 MeegsC (talk) 12:20, 2 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that although Surrey created over 250 smallholdings for men after WWI, it was the Women's Farm and Garden Society who created the ones for women? Source: see page labelled 107 of this short article
- ALT1:... that ...? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)

Reviewed: Florence Kimball
Comment: I have asked for an image from the WFGS but not holding my breath

Created by Victuallers (talk). Self-nominated at 09:56, 12 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Date, length and hook all OK. QPQ done, no close paraphrasing. Good to go. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 16:15, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Is this in fact the Working for Gardeners Association? DuncanHill (talk) 01:10, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@DuncanHill: Nicely spotted Duncan. You are correct. Wikipedia normally uses the most familiar name for a society rather than the latest one it is VERY new - and I got it wrong. You are allowed to just make changes. Victuallers (talk) 10:28, 7 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]