Template talk:Did you know/Dolores Alexander

Dolores Alexander

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as 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 Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:45, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

• ... that lesbian feminist Dolores Alexander co-opened the first feminist restaurant, Mother Courage, in the United States in 1972....?

• Reviewed: Born Again (The X-Files)

Created by SarahStierch (talk). Self nom at 13:54, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

• Age, length, sources OK. No copyvio, plagiarism or close paraphrasing from the cited sources. The information about her Executive Directorship and reasons for resigning are not in any of the cited sources, but they are in the interview listed in the external links (although the statement that she resigned due to the homophobic beliefs of the early inception of NOW is not fully supported - she says she was effectively fired) - why is this not cited? The last few sentences in the "Narrator" section of that document are paraphrased quite closely in the article. The hook is supported, but would perhaps be better rearranged to make it clear to what the "first" claim refers: ALT1": "... that, in 1972, lesbian feminist Dolores Alexander co-opened "Mother Courage", the first feminist restaurant in the United States?" Yomangani^talk 01:04, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for reading the article. I based it on the finding aid written by the archivists. I have not read the oral history yet, finding aids are generally great starting points and perhaps I read it incorrectly. I nominated the article for the fact, and I know, like many of the articles on Wikipedia, this article needs further work. Thank you again for your input! (I included the link to the oral history hoping that folks would be encouraged to better the article - good faith of course :) ) SarahStierch (talk) 01:14, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

I've added a couple references. Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:03, 27 August 2011 (UTC)

So what's the consensus here? I'm leaning towards greenlighting it. Had a bit of a nose around for more supporting refs but not much luck. Fairly specialised. Casliber (talk · contribs) 02:50, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

I think it's okay, Yomagani's concerns seem to have been addressed. Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:52, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

• Based on Yomagani's review and the changes made to the article. Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:34, 31 August 2011 (UTC)