Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/June 15, 2023
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Margaret Abbott (June 15, 1878 – June 10, 1955) was an American amateur golfer and the first woman to win an Olympic event credited to the U.S.: the women's golf at the 1900 Olympics. Born in Calcutta in 1878, Abbott moved with her family to Chicago in 1884. She joined the Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Illinois, where she was coached by Charles B. Macdonald and H. J. Whigham. In 1899, she traveled with her mother to Paris to study art. The following year, along with her mother, she signed up for a women's golf tournament without realizing it was part of the second modern Olympics. Abbott won with a score of 47 strokes and was awarded a porcelain bowl; her mother tied for seventh. In December 1902, she married the writer Finley Peter Dunne. They moved to New York and had four children. Abbott died never realizing she won an Olympic event. She was not well known until University of Florida professor Paula Welch researched her life. The New York Times published her belated obituary in 2018. (Full article...)
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as i am aware that this featured article's fac nominator prefers to keep comments out of the blurb itself, i thought it would be more appropriate for me to provide the reasoning for my edits here on the blurb talk page instead.
| Margaret Abbott, → Portrait | ▶ | captions of depictions of the subject of a biographical blurb that credit the artist generally do not also name the subject, as seen in ids 1044900402 and 1054084537 |
| Margaret Ives Abbott → Margaret Abbott | ▶ | biographical blurbs generally use the article title as the bolded link |
| . She was → and | ▶ | reworded to conform with character limit |
| part of | ▶ | added "part of", as presumably the golf tournament was not the entirely of the second modern olympics |
| without realizing |
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| Abbott won |
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| 47 strokes; ... Abbott received a porcelain bowl as a prize. → 47 strokes and was awarded a porcelain bowl; |
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| seventh |
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| They |
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| ▶ | removed to conform with character limit, as the death year is already mentioned in the lifespan, and the age at death can be calculated from the lifespan | |
| never realizing |
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| Paula Welch, a professor at the University of Florida, → University of Florida professor Paula Welch |
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as usual, anyone should feel free to revert any of my changes if they disagree with my reasoning. dying (talk) 23:59, 6 June 2023 (UTC)