Template:Did you know nominations/Beatrice Hicks
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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 10:22, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
Beatrice Hicks[edit]
- ... that Beatrice Hicks, the founding president of the Society of Women Engineers, created a device that made the moon landings possible?
Created/expanded by Sven Manguard (talk). Self nom at 03:07, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
I will try and do a review, however in all honesty it will involve me asking someone to walk me through the process over IRC, just saying...Sven Manguard Wha? 03:07, 18 October 2012 (UTC)- Reviewed Vulpicida (I'd like a second opinion though). Sven Manguard Wha? 03:30, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
- Alt 1 ... that Beatrice Hicks, the founding president of the Society of Women Engineers, was one of only two women in her undergraduate class? Sven Manguard Wha? 03:07, 18 October 2012 (UTC)
Just almost everything is ready to go. Your sourcing is good, date is good, both hook facts are mentioned in the article, etc. Just one problem — it's not been expanded quite 5x. You took it from 908 characters to 4473, while a 5x expansion would result in an article of 4540 characters. Could you please add just a little to the article? You just need 67 characters more. If you expand it, please drop a note at my talk page. Nyttend (talk) 03:32, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
- I think I've squeezed as much out of the sources as could possibly be done, Nyttend. I suppose I will go over it and find one more sentance to stick in. Considering that "I think I've squeezed as much out of the sources as could possibly be done, Nyttend." is (not counting the punctuation) exactly 67 characters, I don't think it'll be too hard. That being said, I find it a bit silly that this is being held up over once sentence's length. I'll get to it, I suppose. Sven Manguard Wha? 05:01, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
- Done. I added 300 characters of prose from a new source that, despite this time being near the top of the Google search listings, I didn't find during the Ada day event. Sven Manguard Wha? 05:30, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
