Template:Did you know nominations/Mary van Kleeck

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:45, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Mary van Kleeck

Mary van Kleeck
Mary van Kleeck
  • ... that Mary van Kleeck (pictured), a social reformer and labor activist, was the first woman appointed to a position of authority in the American government during WWI? Source: Robins, Raymond, Mrs.; Rippey, Sarah Cory, eds. (1918). Life and Labor. 8. National Women's Trade Union League. (source [link])
    • ALT1:... that during World War I, the Labor Department of the United States created a Women in Industry Service sub-agency, which was headed by social reformer Mary van Kleeck (pictured)?

5x expanded by Ganesha811 (talk). Self-nominated at 17:52, 5 September 2019 (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: None required.

Overall: epicgenius (talk) 14:10, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

  • Unfortunately, it falls just short of the length criteria: 1,485 characters before, to 6,909 characters afterward. The expected character count would be about 7,425 characters. I'm willing to give some leeway and allow you to add a couple more characters, even though you nominated it several days ago. I can then continue with the rest of the review.
Epicgenius, thank you! That's unfortunate to hear - I'd assumed it was a big enough expansion. I'm still pretty new to this. Thank you for the leeway - I'll expand the article a bit further today and let you know when I'm done. :) Ganesha811 (talk) 15:27, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
@Epicgenius: - I've expanded the article and it should be above the 5x standard now. Let me know if there's anything else I need to do! Thanks for your help. Ganesha811 (talk) 15:50, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
@Ganesha811: Should be good to go now. epicgenius (talk) 16:24, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
@Ganesha811 and Epicgenius: Great article and hook! Should we add the image from the article to the hook? It appears to be PD (pre-1924). Levivich 17:03, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
Levivich, Epicgenius don't see why not! I don't know how, though - only had one DYK before and it didn't have an image. Ganesha811 (talk) 17:32, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
  • Added freely-licensed image. Yoninah (talk) 20:15, 14 September 2019 (UTC)