Template:Did you know nominations/Carman Barnes

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The result was: promoted by Carabinieri (talk) 04:26, 22 February 2013 (UTC).

Carman Barnes

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... that author Carman Barnes' scandalous novel Schoolgirl, published when she was only sixteen, got her kicked out of school?

Reviewed: Slave Narrative Collection

Moved to mainspace by Gamaliel (talk). Self nom at 19:01, 18 February 2013 (UTC).

New article, mainspaced today. Gamaliel (talk) 19:01, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

Article is long enough and new enough. Hook is interesting; I've not yet looked up the source on highbeam to verify the sourcing of it. Unfortunately, I find too-close paraphrasing of content from this source. That needs to be resolved. Also, the hook could be made even more interesting by rewording:

ALT1 ... that author Carman Barnes published her first novel when she was only sixteen, and was kicked out of school because of it? --Orlady (talk) 21:56, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Ack, that's embarrassing, but thank you for catching it. Hopefully, I've removed all of it now. Gamaliel (talk) 22:25, 21 February 2013 (UTC)

Much better. The article is adequately footnoted and the hook fact is verified with the source that was accessible to me on HighBeam. All is good! --Orlady (talk) 02:48, 22 February 2013 (UTC)