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A fact from Amy Gentry appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 April 2015 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a pioneer of women's rowing, Amy Gentry, assisted Barnes Wallis with his experiments to develop a bouncing bomb?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2015/April. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Amy Gentry.

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To-do list:

Featured Articles:

Raise the rowing (sport) article to featured status.
1. Get article relisted to 'good article status'
2. Put through another round of peer review, see here
3. Nominate for featured status
Ditto for Henley Royal Regatta, The Boat Race , Steve Redgrave

Stubs: see here..

Tag {{Rowing-stub}} onto all rowing stub articles so we can keep track of them.
Expand stubs to at least start class.

Image requests: see here..
Article requests: see here..

Write bios for World Rowing champions (see the redlinks in the templates)

Document FISA database errors

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I don't really want to be associated with this nomination. It needs way more work before it should go within a zillion miles of the so-called "main page". Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:00, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to take your name off the credits. My feeling remains that we should strike while the iron is hot with a view to it going up on 11th April. That's a month away which seems to be plenty of time. In any case, my philosophy is not so perfectionist — see perfect is the enemy of good, which I also started, for Watson-Watt's pragmatic advice — "Give them the third best to go on with; the second best comes too late, the best never comes." Andrew D. (talk) 20:24, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I just think it's way premature - but then I have no tolerance for anyone who gives a damn about DYK, GA, FA, etc.. I also have no particular interest in the subject matter, so I doubt I'll be improving it myself. Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:29, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

There's no accounting for taste. Myself, I haven't seen such an engaging topic since Lilian Bland. That wasn't perfect either but it was better to get it out there rather than have it gathering dust in user space. The main annoyance in that case was the image which fell foul of the bureaucracy. It will probably be tough to use the 1930s images of Amy Gentry which are easy to find on the internet. Time will solve that problem eventually but waiting until their copyright expires could take decades. Andrew D. (talk) 20:57, 13 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I'm glad the DYK reviewer agrees that it should not have been nominated yet. Next time, I suggest that you consult, at least, with other authors involved before putting new articles forward. Some of us want nothing to do with DYK, and bouncing us into processes like that is counter-productive to our involvement. Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:25, 14 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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