Template:Did you know nominations/Hannah Johnson Carter

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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by BlueMoonset (talk) 17:16, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
Withdrawn; does not qualify for DYK because it does not have sufficient newly written material (it's all copied from pre-existing public domain sources)

Hannah Johnson Carter edit

  • ... that 19th-century art educator Hannah Johnson Carter believed that teaching children about art at a young age would help elevate public taste? Source: "She does not confine her energies to local work, but has an interest in general art education, believing enthusiastically in the necessity of educating and elevating public taste by beginning early with the training of children for a love of the aesthetic..." ([1])

Created by Rosiestep (talk). Nominated by Yoninah (talk) at 18:29, 8 March 2017 (UTC).


  • @Rosiestep and Yoninah: This entire article was copied word-for-word from the source. Per WP:DYK 2. d. DYK articles may freely reuse public domain text per Wikipedia's usual policy, with proper attribution. However, because the emphasis at DYK is on new and original content, text copied verbatim from public domain sources, or which closely paraphrases such sources, is excluded both from the 1,500 minimum character count for new articles, and from the ×5 expansion count for ×5 expanded articles. Also, just generally at Wikipedia, some kind of attribution notation is needed on the article. — Maile (talk) 22:02, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
  • Maile66, Thank you for your review. Regarding attribution, see Hannah Johnson Carter#Attribution; or were you referring to something else? Regarding starting with copy/paste: preserving the original content is part of the attribution process. Regarding if you've determined that the rewording isn't far enough removed to meet the 2.d. requirement, we'll withdraw the nomination if this is the consensus. --Rosiestep (talk) 23:01, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
My mistake on missing the attribution. Apologies on that. I checked it word for word as I read through the source, and it is verbatim the wording from the source. Sorry, I was hoping this nomination could be saved somehow. — Maile (talk) 23:04, 9 March 2017 (UTC)