Talk:Patricia MacLachlan
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Did you know nomination edit
- 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) 11:59, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
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- ... that children's writer Patricia MacLachlan kept a small bag of dirt from the prairies as a reminder of her Wyoming roots? Source: The Washington Post; Publishers Weekly
- ALT1: ... that Patricia MacLachlan worked as an English teacher and at a family services agency before becoming a children's writer? Source: The Washington Post; Publishers Weekly
- Reviewed: J. Charles Jessup
- Comment: Eligible per Rule 1d, because it only appeared in the "Recent Deaths" section of ITN and not as a bold link.
5x expanded by Bloom6132 (talk). Self-nominated at 23:59, 10 April 2022 (UTC).
New enough but NOTand large enough expansion. QPQ present.DYKcheck does not flag this as 5x and it appears to be 708 to 2500 characters, so just about 3x.Hook facts check out to sources (though I prefer ALT1). Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:55, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- Pinging Bloom6132 as due to an error I almost gave this a tick. It appears to be short on the expansion side. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:56, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
- Sammi Brie, DYKcheck sometimes gives false negatives if the article had previously been expanded with problematic material that was subsequently removed. In this case, the article has been in the low 400s in terms of character count for over nine years, and was expanded from 415 to 431 prose characters the day before the current expansion began on 3 April 2022. A 5× expansion from 431 characters is 2155 prose characters, and with the article currently at 2531 prose characters, this is a 5.87× expansion, more than enough to meet the DYK requirements. Please continue your review with the rest of the DYK criteria (neutrality, close paraphrasing, etc.). Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:21, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
It's not that, BlueMoonset... The 2017 wikitext editor brings some issues to the way DYKcheck calculates. It can sometimes near-double byte size or more in a readout. I just rechecked and got 415 on the last revision prior to her death. It is correct on expansion size and the rest of the review still stands. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 05:51, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
- Pinging Bloom6132 as due to an error I almost gave this a tick. It appears to be short on the expansion side. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:56, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
