Template:Did you know nominations/Amy Gentry
- 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 Allen3 talk 18:44, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
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Amy Gentry[edit]
... that a pioneer of women's rowing, Amy Gentry, helped Barnes Wallis invent the bouncing bomb (pictured)?
- Reviewed: Deruvian and Fagan
- Comment: The new Women's Boat Race will occur on April 11 and there's likely to be a big press. We should run this on that day along with other related articles such as women's rowing.
Created by Andrew Davidson (talk), Ghmyrtle (talk). Nominated by Andrew Davidson (talk) at 19:46, 13 March 2015 (UTC).
New enough. Long enough. QPQ done. Image is suitably licensed for front page, but does not appear in the article itself! I can only see the ODNB source, but it seems to me that as his "personal secretary" it might be a bit of a stretch to claim that she helped him to invent the bouncing bomb. What do the other sources say? Talking of the ONDB source, there are significant copyvio issues, with all these being word-for-word: "in 1928 she was stroke of the weybridge eight which won the women's head of the river race", "british single sculls champion in 1932 1933 and 1934 before retiring undefeated", "with her brother frank she won the mixed double sculling championship", "which defeated crews from france belgium and the netherlands", etc. Thus it is difficult for me to WP:AGF for the other sources. Edwardx (talk) 23:51, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
- Thanks for the quick review but please allow that the article is quite fresh and so may need some more polish. On the specific points:
- She helped Wallis conduct experiments on the shape of the bouncing bomb, using her rowing skills during their water testing. There are many sources which report this and I'll add some more, if you like.
- I've not read the DNB entry yet myself - another editor did that bit. If we're paraphrasing too closely then I'll copyedit this tomorrow as it's bedtime now.
- Note that I plan a bunch of articles like this for the Boat Race as it should be a good one this year. See water cooler for some ideas and links.
- Andrew D. (talk)
- And thank you for the fast response. I shall await developments. Please let me know when you would like me to have another look... Edwardx (talk) 00:29, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
- @Edwardx: I got carried away fleshing out the related topic of Silvermere, which is itself ready for DYK but now I have to bank some QPQs. Looking at the oustanding reviews this morning, Bali Mauladad seemed more pressing — you may recall this from last year's London meetup and it's still not finished yet. And I have to go out now. So many topics, so little time. More anon. Andrew D. (talk) 11:57, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
- @Andrew Davidson: No rush, she's been dead nearly 40 years; a few more days/weeks won't make any difference! I can be quite slow to do QPQs myself - banking some would be a luxury. Edwardx (talk) 11:15, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
It has been a month since the article was edited, and that's too long. Andrew Davidson, I think one additional week should be plenty of time to address the issues raised in the earlier review, and I do hope to see progress by then. Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:48, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
I have improved and updated the article in various ways, which should address the points made above. If the current hook seems too strong then please consider this alternative. Andrew D. (talk) 22:10, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
- ALT1 ... that a pioneer of women's rowing, Amy Gentry, assisted Barnes Wallis with his experiments to develop a bouncing bomb (pictured)?
