Talk:Louise McKinney

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A fact from Louise McKinney appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 September 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Louise McKinney (pictured) was the first woman in the British Empire to be sworn in as an elected legislator? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2022/September. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Louise McKinney.

A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the On this day section on September 22, 2023 and September 22, 2024.

Biography assessment rating comment

The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 06:14, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

"Valiant Five" ?

I've added a "citation needed" to the term "Valiant Five". I've only seen this term used in the article on the Famous Five and the individual articles about each of the five women. I've spent some time googling around and not found it anywhere else. Does anyone have any citations to show the term "Valiant Five" is or ever has been used to refer to them?Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 03:57, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Comments

General

• Infobox: occupation parameter "Women's rights activist and politician" → "{{hlist|Women's rights activist|politician}}

 Done

• Lede: née Crummy → {{nee|Crummy}}

 Done

• • Add the fact that she supported eugenics and stricter immigration laws.

 Done

• Political career: Famous Five is first mentioned here so it should be wiki-linked. Unlink the one in the "Persons Case".

 Done

• Categories: Remove "Canadian feminists", and two human rights activist categories. Feminism is not backed up by sources in the article, add "Canadian women's rights activists" instead, a more broad term that is correct and accepted by sources.

 Done

Images

• Add alt text.

 Done

• Properly licensed, no objections to this.

Sources

• The only current source in the infobox can be moved to the "Involvement in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union" section, where the fact is mentioned in the text. It should also be filled out like this:
  • {{cite book|last1=Normandin|first1=Pierre|last2=Normandin|first=A. Léopold|title=The Canadian Parliamentary Companion|publisher=Citizen Print. and Publishing Company|year=1921|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dGQtAQAAMAAJ&q=%22M.+March+10+%2C+1896+%2C+to+James+McKinney+%22}}

I've removed this entirely, as it doesn't have any information that The Canadian parliamentary guide doesn't, and I also don't have full access to that source.

• Reference style is inconsistent. Under the "References" section, create a "Web sources" subsection that would include non-book sources that are present in the article. Sources that do not mention the author of the text should use the "|ref={{sfnRef}}" parameter. Example:
  • <ref>{{Cite web |ref={{sfnRef|Alberta Online Encyclopedia|2010}}|title=The Famous Five - Louise McKinney - Private Life |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/famous5/achievements/mckinney_private_life.html |archive-url=http://wayback.archive-it.org/2217/20101208165054/http://www.abheritage.ca/famous5/achievements/mckinney_private_life.html |archive-date=8 December 2010 |access-date=30 June 2022 |website=Alberta Online Encyclopedia}}</ref>
• As far as I can tell, her death date is not backed by Ref 20.

That statement was backed up by the previous reference -- moved to the correct location.

• I'd avoid the Candian Encyclopedia, the copyvio detector detects 40.5% similarity between this article and their website.

Looks like it's mainly picking up smaller phrases (eg. "the Supreme Court of Canada"). I'll rewrite a couple of the more closely phrased sentences.

• Ref 21 redirects to a dead URL.

Fixed. Looks like that was a problem with Template:DFHD, so I've linked the correct URL directly.

• Fill out and archive the rest of the references.

 Done

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 05:45, 7 September 2022 (UTC)

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Louise McKinney in 1917

• ... that Louise McKinney (pictured) was the first woman elected to a legislature in the British Empire? Source: Forster, Merna (2004), 100 Canadian Heroines: Famous and Forgotten Faces, pp 166-167.
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Improved to Good Article status by Ingenuity (talk). Self-nominated at 12:33, 22 August 2022 (UTC).

• Recently promoted to GA, neutral, and well referenced. Earwig flags some phrases as similar to the Canadian Encyclopedia source but none of these are concerning. The hook is certainly interesting and is cited to an offline source, though other sources confirm the fact. The image is appropriately licensed, and a QPQ is not required as the nominator has <5 DYK credits. 97198 (talk) 21:40, 22 August 2022 (UTC)