Template:Did you know nominations/Mary Bulkley

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:04, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Mary Bulkley

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Engraving of Mary Bulkley with hair dressed in pompadour style

... that 18th-century British actress Mary Bulkley (pictured) was once hissed by her audience because she had "taken the son of her long-term lover to her bed"? (source: The Georgian Theatre Audience: Manners and Mores in the Age of Politeness, 1737-1810, p52, by Rebecca Wright, Institute of Historical Research (2014))

Reviewed: Dorothy Misener Jurney

Created by Storye book (talk). Self-nominated at 17:08, 19 January 2019 (UTC).

Interesting article, hooky hook. Working through template to finish review. HouseOfChange (talk) 22:22, 20 January 2019 (UTC) -->

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

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Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: - ?

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

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QPQ: Done.

Overall: Text needs work to reduce source overlap reported by Earwig. Also, other images of Mrs Bulkley available in Wikimedia would be clearer at 100x100. HouseOfChange (talk) 22:34, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the review. I have resolved the copyvio, although a lot of it remains in the form of two quotations, which were already identified with quotation marks. I believe we need the actual quotations in this case, because the language betrays both sarcasm and bluntness to those WP readers who have read the contemporary comedies that Bulkley had been acting in (I'll explain if required) so the quotations tell us something about her character. That is the only part of the article in which she speaks in her own words, so to lose the quotations would be a mistake. I have edited the image to be clearer at 100x100px. Storye book (talk) 08:41, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for reducing the overlap with source. I agree quotations add to the article. I also made a small change to the article to repair chronology, please check to make sure you are OK with that. Template says "hook image may be a crop of an article image," so your crop is acceptable. I agree that image is more striking than others of her, so this is a good choice. Article is now ready to go, IMO. HouseOfChange (talk) 02:08, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the chronology correction - much appreciated. And thank you for the review. Storye book (talk) 10:59, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi, I came by to promote this, but there seem to be a number of bald URLs. Footnote 21 is especially odd. Yoninah (talk) 13:55, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for the heads up on this. I have sorted those out now. Storye book (talk) 14:19, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you, but your book refs are formatted strangely. You are using Google search URLs instead of Google Books URLs, and the result is that the reader has to click on the book and then look things up for themselves. Are you able to format your book refs with publisher and ISBN numbers, if not actual page numbers? You might consider getting used to WP:Citation templates to create clearer refs. Yoninah (talk) 14:29, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Sorry I didn't realise that was happening. I'll redo the book refs. Storye book (talk) 16:06, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

I have now revised all the book citations. Because this type of revision exercise tends to attract new errors and omissions, I've re-checked the article and references several times. I have included ISBNs where available, but 18th and 19th century books do not have ISBNs. Some old books are in museums, and are only available online, hence no publisher is given for some of them. Storye book (talk) 20:49, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. Restoring tick. Yoninah (talk) 22:32, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you very much for sorting the templates out. Much appreciated.Storye book (talk) 09:46, 20 February 2019 (UTC)