Template:Did you know nominations/Margie Goldstein-Engle

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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 01:29, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

Margie Goldstein-Engle

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• ... that Margie Goldstein-Engle, who as a child cleaned out horse stalls to pay for riding lessons, became a 10-time American Grandprix Association Rider of the Year?

Created/expanded by Epeefleche (talk). Self nom at 03:23, 26 October 2011 (UTC)

Reviewed: Call Me Back Again

• Hook:Short enough, somewhat interesting. Reference supports the 10x claim, as does the other reference with the cleaning of stalls.

Article:New enough, long enough. Referencing is thorough. Paraphrasing could use some work. (A couple other checks seem fine).

Summary: Please touch up the paraphrasing . Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:34, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

• Done. As requested. As an aside, that duplicate detector clearly needs honing. It shouldn't be that difficult for it to be fixed so that it avoids highlighting initial cap phrases ... like her name, and the names of awards she has won, and halls of fame of which she is a member, and the racing federation, and specific races. But I touched up some other minor material, in an abundance of caution, while leaving further silly "catches" such as "born March 31 1958".--Epeefleche (talk) 09:00, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

• My main issue was the text string "first rider to place six horses in ribbons in a single grand prix and the first rider to"... I'll check the paraphrasing in a sec Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:07, 10 November 2011 (UTC)

• K, looks good now. Crisco 1492 (talk) 13:12, 10 November 2011 (UTC)