Talk:Mabel Freer

A fact from Mabel Freer appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Mabel Freer (pictured) was deported from Australia because she could not speak Italian?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mabel Freer.

Biography

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles

Australia: History / Politics Low‑importance

	Australia portal Mabel Freer is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.AustraliaWikipedia:WikiProject AustraliaTemplate:WikiProject AustraliaAustralia articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject Australian history (assessed as Low-importance).
	This article is supported by WikiProject Australian politics (assessed as Low-importance).
	Need help improving this article? Ask a Librarian^{What's this?} at the National Library of Australia.
	The Wikimedia Australia chapter can be contacted via email to helpwikimedia.org.au for non-editorial assistance.

Women's History Low‑importance

	History portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women's History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women's history and related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women's HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject Women's HistoryTemplate:WikiProject Women's HistoryWomen's History articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

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 Bruxton (talk) 19:02, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that Mabel Freer was deported from Australia because she couldn't speak Italian? Source: "in 1936 a young British woman was twice given a dictation test in Italian under s3(a) of the Immigration Act and, not passing it, was refused entry – which was the start of a long battle that ended in her disembarking at Sydney to a hero’s welcome" [1], p. 242
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Marjorie Lynch

Moved to mainspace by ITBF (talk). Self-nominated at 08:18, 6 January 2023 (UTC).[reply]

Not sure exactly why this was submitted for January 5, when it was expanded (but not 5x), and not December 27, when it was created -- but I don't think that should count toward invalidating the DYK application, as it is in any case a new-enough article. Length, quality of prose check out; Earwig suggests close paraphrasing, but in fact this is a false positive about a small number of exact quotes from the sources. Hook is fascinating (it is what drew me to the article), and I was able to directly verify it from Martens. Images appear to use the correct licenses. QPQ done. Dahn (talk) 09:54, 6 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]