Talk:Oyster dress

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This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on May 22, 2024.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
August 24, 2023	Good article nominee	Listed
February 29, 2024	Featured article candidate	Promoted

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 9, 2023.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the only known copies of the oyster dress designed by Alexander McQueen for his collection Irere are owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Kim Kardashian?

Current status: Featured article

Did you know nomination

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) 03:28, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the only known copies of the oyster dress designed by Alexander McQueen for his collection Irere are owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Kim Kardashian? Source: Harper's Bazaar
- ALT1: ... that "the most important dress of the 21st century" was the oyster dress designed by Alexander McQueen for his collection Irere? Source: Harper's Bazaar
- ALT2: ... that it took three seamstresses a month to sew hundreds of yards of chiffon into the complicated skirt of the oyster dress from Alexander McQueen's Irere collection? Source: Women's Wear Daily
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Palmire Dumont & Template:Did you know nominations/Unicorn hunting
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Created by Premeditated Chaos (talk). Self-nominated at 06:06, 26 June 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Irere (Alexander McQueen collection); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Both articles are in amazing shape for such recent creations... Great work! Definitely eligible, well-sourced, and the hook facts are interesting. Prefer ALT0 and ALT2 due to the unattributed quote in the other one. But the promotor may choose to use that if they're okay with it.--N Ø 10:09, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review. For what it's worth, I've done unattributed quotes in DYK hooks before (see Talk:Floe Edge & Talk:Ferdinand Rudow for example). As long as it's attributed in the article it's generally been acceptable in my experience. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 12:33, 26 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Oyster shell photo

It would make far more sense to have a photo of the European flat oyster, Ostrea edulis, as that is the native oyster in the UK and the type of oyster eaten in restaurants etc in the UK and with which McQueen would have been familiar. The Pacific oyster (Magallana gigas), is introduced in the UK but not widely produced/imported here. 109.152.244.92 (talk) 08:34, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]