Template:Did you know nominations/Mères of France

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 01:38, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

Mères of France

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... that in the 1830s one of the Mères of France became famous for her creation Tétons de Venus (Venus’s breasts), a dish of enormous dumplings that was popular with groups of bachelors? Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=oESykgEACAAJ&dq=Simple+French+cooking+:+recipes+from+our+mothers%27+kitchens&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&ppis=_e&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisnZC-qNHnAhWOWM0KHc_3C7YQ6AEwAHoECAAQAQ " "Mere Brigousse was enjoying popularity in the Charpenes quarter of the city with a dish called Venus's breasts. These enormous dumplings were favorites with bachelors celebrating a stag night."

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Mekong Bobtail

Created by Valereee (talk). Self-nominated at 15:09, 14 February 2020 (UTC).

@Valereee: Hi again, and here's my review: epicgenius (talk) 17:57, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I noticed a bunch of minor style errors. E.g. in the "Lyon" section there is a blank paragraph, and a missing space at the crime went unsolved.[13]After World War II. epicgenius (talk) 17:57, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Epicgenius, thanks, fixed that missing space, but for the life of me I haven't been able to figure out what's going on with the missing paragraph. If I take the space out, it jams the para into the one above. What am I doing wrong? --valereee (talk) 18:04, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

valereee, there's an extra space in The original restaurant was in 2001 still being operated by her granddaughter.[1] <paragraph break> Mère Bourgeois, born Marie Humbert in 1870.... Not sure if this is intentional though. epicgenius (talk) 18:07, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Epicgenius, yep, I just removed it again, and the two paras are jammed in together again. It seems I can get zero spaces or two between these two paras. --valereee (talk) 18:12, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Oh, interesting...I can also get half the normal amount of space by putting in a <br> ... --valereee (talk) 18:25, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

valereee I just edited the page, does it work now? I am still waiting for Earwig to load, but it might not be for a few hours. epicgenius (talk) 18:26, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Epicgenius, whoa...that is some epic geniusism! Why couldn't I get that to work? --valereee (talk) 18:28, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

valereee, I'm not sure how that happened either. Maybe luck? ‾\_(ツ)_/‾ epicgenius (talk) 18:41, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

valereee,

looks good to go now that the copyvio detector is back up. Must've happened when I was stuck on the subway... epicgenius (talk) 23:30, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Epicgenius thank for the review! Would you have any objection to my changing 1800s to 1830s? I just found another source that narrowed that down. --valereee (talk) 00:44, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

valereee, that is fine and that would actually make the hook more accurate. It's minor enough an edit that it won't need a re-review, but

this correction is approved anyway. epicgenius (talk) 00:49, 15 February 2020 (UTC)