Talk:Mildred Hope Fisher Wood

A fact from Mildred Hope Fisher Wood appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 August 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that educator Mildred Hope Fisher Wood was the originator of learning-disability courses, which she taught to prospective teachers at the University of Northern Iowa?

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 21:29, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... ~~that educator Mildred Hope Fisher Wood taught learning disability courses, the first such courses of the time, to teachers at the University of Northern Iowa?~~

Reviewed: Harold Clyde Bingham

Created by SL93 (talk). Self-nominated at 04:10, 18 July 2020 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems: - ~~a few more wikilinks would be good eg special education, learning disability and the academic titles need formatting per Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Abbreviations#Abbreviations_widely_used_in_Wikipedia~~

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems: - ~~1/hook could be snappier would you care to rephrase? 2/maybe wikilink learning disability, 3/are they teachers or teachers in training?~~

QPQ: Done.

Overall: interesting freshly created article on a pioneering academic, ~~article needs a bit of cleanup, hook could be snappier~~ Mujinga (talk) 17:00, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Mujinga: I fixed the issues. What about ALT1 ... that educator Mildred Hope Fisher Wood was the first person to teach learning disability courses to prospective teachers? SL93 (talk) 18:37, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I tried pinging Mujinga and posting on their talk page, but they are not responding despite asking me to ping them when I fixed the issues. A new reviewer is needed and I don't think this should count as Mujinga's QPQ for their nomination. SL93 (talk) 20:40, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

lol hold your horses, as you suggested your pings didn't go through and now i'm back online tonight i saw your message. this is a perfectly valid QPQ actually because i've reviewed all elements, whether it passes is up to both of us and the rest of the community. Mujinga (talk) 21:18, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry. I assumed wrong because I just had this happen in a DYK a few days ago. SL93 (talk) 21:21, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

no worries! Mujinga (talk) 21:31, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

thanks for addressing all my concerns, I think ALT1 is better but still needs a bit of finessing because it now begs the question first person where? (And people aren't generally that keen on "first person to" DYKs..). I think a combination of ALT0 and ALT1 mentioning the uni again would probably address that, maybe saying she was the originator or something, what do you think? Mujinga (talk) 21:29, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- I will suggest a new hook when I get home from work tonight. 21:37, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Great, if not later I should be online again tomoro! Mujinga (talk) 21:41, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

ALT2 ... that educator Mildred Hope Fisher Wood was the originator of learning disability courses, which she taught to prospective teachers at the University of Northern Iowa? SL93 (talk) 03:09, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Nice one SL93 for AlT2. I can now approve that one, which is cited to https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55565956/the-courier on the actual sentence in the article. Mujinga (talk) 10:57, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]