Talk:Grace Banker

Latest comment: 6 years ago by 216.146.231.6 in topic GA Review

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Good articleGrace Banker has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
June 29, 2016Good article nomineeListed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on May 2, 2016.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Grace Banker and her team of telephone operators reported for work wearing helmets and gas masks?
On this day...A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on October 25, 2018.


GA Review

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Reviewer: Sainsf (talk · contribs) 04:52, 29 June 2016 (UTC)Reply


General
  • No copyvio/dablink/external link trouble
Lead
  • Should be at most a para long for an article of this length
    • Removed some text and made it into a single paragraph
  • but she was not alive to receive this news. Maybe redundant as it is evident from the dates given at the start
    • Corrected
Life
  • , and she selected Change to "; she selected"
    • Done
  • Any clear reason behind her death?

^*Could not find any source for this

Awards
  • Subsequent to the war When exactly?
Date of issue of order of award given now with two references.

Thanks, I can promote this now. Sainsf (talk · contribs) 07:00, 29 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

More Information

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Miss Grace Derby Banker was married, on 4 March 1922, to Eugene H. Paddock.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4613158/the_new_york_times/

https://books.google.com/books?id=wM_mAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&dq=grace+derby+banker+paddock&source=bl&ots=UpCDvKjwXy&sig=nLM14321zvBR4jtGrOhzC6sW8Ac&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY65KApLbbAhUL7YMKHcJAA4YQ6AEISTAK#v=onepage&q=grace%20derby%20banker%20paddock&f=false

Mr. and Mrs. Paddock had four children, Engene A Paddock, Arthur R Paddock, Stephen B Paddock, and a daughter.

https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/New-York/Grace-B-Paddock_g2m2s

Grace Derby (Banker) Paddock died on 17 December 1960, of cancer, in Scarsdale, NY, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA.

https://www.geni.com/people/Chf-Operator-Grace-Paddock/6000000076745000322

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58391578

216.146.231.6 (talk) 01:21, 3 June 2018 (UTC) DaveReply