Template:Did you know nominations/Ann Smith (activist)

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 18:19, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Ann Smith (activist)

  • ... that Ann Smith was described as a "a great fomentor of plots"? Source: "They accompanied him to Cleves to see another Scottish exile, Sir John Cochrane, and a government report at this time refers to Ann as 'a great fomentor of plots'" - https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/67257
    • ALT1:... that in the 1680s, Ann Smith was described as a "a great fomentor of plots"? Source: "They accompanied him to Cleves to see another Scottish exile, Sir John Cochrane, and a government report at this time refers to Ann as 'a great fomentor of plots'" - https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/67257

Created by Mujinga (talk). Self-nominated at 17:56, 18 July 2020 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Thanks for creating this interesting and important article! By my reckoning it was moved to mainspace just under 7 days ago UTC, so I'm glad to get this review in under the wire. Sourcing looks good. (By my understanding of common practice cites in the lede aren't necessary? If they are, then maybe just drop in an extra reference there.) Any other sources besides ODNB and the thesis? Would be great to have some more open-access cites. Fine if not (I've been running through the ODNB-listed Women in Red myself and know that the answer is often "there is nothing else"). AleatoryPonderings (talk) 14:33, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

  • Hiya, cheers for the review. Yes it's like you said, cites aren't necessary but can be added if needed by consensus per MOS:CITELEAD so I'd rather leave it as it is, unless there's something specific. On sources, yes I did have a good look around and didn't find other sources unfortunately. I'm actually quite interested where she ended up but we only have information about her for those four years of her life. Mujinga (talk) 18:09, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
    • Wasn't anything specific in the lede that I was looking for backup on, and completely get it re: other sources. All good from my perspective! Thanks for the MOS reference, btw; I was sure there was something out there but didn't know where it was. AleatoryPonderings (talk) 18:53, 22 July 2020 (UTC)