Template:Did you know nominations/Thea Porter
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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) ~21h, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
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Thea Porter
[edit]- ... that fashion designer Thea Porter's customers included Elizabeth Taylor, Princess Margaret, Mick and Bianca Jagger, and Lauren Bacall?
- ALT1:... that fashion designer Thea Porter "went to nightclubs every night and had millions of clothes"?
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Created by Edwardx (talk), Philafrenzy (talk), Mabalu (talk). Nominated by Edwardx (talk) at 22:23, 8 June 2014 (UTC).
Created 3 June, nominated 8 June, so new enough; also long enough. QPQ done. Hook is acceptable and short enough, and checks out with online citation #1. No problems with disambig links or with access to external links. Text is written in objective manner and neutral style. Fully cited, although it would be helpful if the first para of the Early life section were cited at the end. External links checked for sources of copyvio and close paraphrasing, but no violations found. Article image is fair-use, appropriately licensed on filepage. Good to go. --Storye book (talk) 15:12, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
I was looking to promote this, but there are a couple of issues with the article that I can't ignore. First, the list of customers who were also friends: this is not well written, and in a few cases claims friendship where the sources do not: Talitha Getty, for example, is said in the NYTimes obit to have been a customer; it's the Guardian that lists customers who became friends, and Getty is not mentioned in that article. There may well be others. The NYTimes says the marriage dissolved (which usually means something formal, like a divorce) in 1964; this "dissolved" is listed after the 1967 divorce, which doesn't make sense. There is no evidence at all that her daughter Venetia is the same person as the Dr. Venetia Porter listed in that other source (FN4). Unless you have a source connecting the two, this can't remain in the article. Finally, although it wouldn't prevent passage, I'm very surprised that the Career section fails to mention that she wasn't a good businesswoman and that a number of her businesses went bankrupt. BlueMoonset (talk) 04:45, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
- BlueMoonset, thank you for your detailed attention. I have attempted to address all of those points, and have added more about her business failures. Edwardx (talk) 11:29, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
- Thank you, BlueMoonset for alterting us to this. All your listed issues are now resolved. I have changed "who" to "whom" in the article (but I've done no other edits). --Storye book (talk) 13:08, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
- Good to go (this time). --Storye book (talk) 13:08, 21 June 2014 (UTC)