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A fact from Mary Wright (designer) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 November 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Russel and Mary Wright's American design "manifesto" Guide to Easier Living proposed that life was "engineering problems with scientific solutions"?
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... that the mid-century American designer Mary Wright's "manifesto" Guide to Easier Living, co-authored with Russel Wright, proposed that all of life could be viewed as "engineering problems with scientific solutions"? Source: The New York Times, [1] "In 1950, the Wrights published their manifesto, Guide to Easier Living. It captured the spirit of an upbeat era that reduced all of life to engineering problems with scientific solutions."
ALT 1: ..."that Russel and Mary Wright's American design "manifesto" Guide to Easier Living proposed that life was "engineering problems with scientific solutions"?" (same citation as above)
Created by Netherzone (talk). Self-nominated at 23:13, 30 October 2021 (UTC).[reply]
- She is a notable designer and this article is well written with lots of good refs. Its neutral and the main image is not free so it could not be used. The hook is interesting enough and short enough although it is 215 chars. Not sure why this has waited for a review but its fine at the mo. Sad to see that there is no picture of the pottery she designed in 1946 as Russel seems to take the credit in the Bauer article but thats not important for the DYK tick. Alt wording "that Russel and Mary Wright's American design "manifesto" Guide to Easier Living proposed that life was "engineering problems with scientific solutions"?" No evidence of paraphrasing that I and Earwig could find... oh and I rebalanced her husbands article which included her contributions under Private Life. Victuallers (talk) 09:16, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for the review, Victuallers! I like the ALT wording you recommended - it's more streamlined, and works better as a DYK. I'm still new to the DYK process, so I don't know if it OK change it above at this stage of the process. Agree about the lack of an image. All I could find was an image of her shot in "the 1920s" that does not have an author or copyright notice; I'm not sure that that would qualify as a "free image". Unfortunately no free images of her design work from the Country Gardens line in the 1940s could be found. Netherzone (talk) 20:36, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
You can change the text of the hook if you want the text to be something like that or add similar as an alt. (so that someone else can decide). I dont understand US copyrights maybe some can help. In the EU and UK we can use images if they are more than 70 years old AND the photographer is unknown. The template for the license when loading the image to commons is PD-EU-anonymous or PD-UK-unknown (in both cases they need to be in double curly brackets). I did write an email to the museum to ask if they might release some images but usually museums dont understand licensing to the level that wikimedia demands. Hope that makes sense. Victuallers (talk) 21:01, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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- She is a notable designer and this article is well written with lots of good refs. Its neutral and the main image is not free so it could not be used. The hook is interesting enough 