Talk:Hush WAACs

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A fact from Hush WAACs appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 June 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that codebreaker Emily Anderson was trained to become a Hush WAAC before she joined the British GCHQ?

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EEHalli (talk) 10:37, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 12:47, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the team of British women codebreakers sent to France during the First World War were nicknamed the Hush WAACs?

Source: https://www.gchq.gov.uk/information/hush-waacs

ALT1: ... that seventeen British women, known as the Hush WAACs, were sent to France to become codebreakers during the First World War? Source: https://www.gchq.gov.uk/information/hush-waacs
ALT2: ... that codebreaker Emily Anderson was initially training to become a Hush WAAC before she joined the British GCHQ? Source: https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Queen_of_Codes/dFRsEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22Hush%20WAACs%22&pg=PT55&printsec=frontcover
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EEHalli (talk) 16:12, 16 May 2024 (UTC).[reply]

What a great little article! Never heard of this before and I think most readers will find it intriguing. DYK Check shows 2300 chars of body, but that's not accounting for the names so I'm going to give it a definite bye. New enough, well cited, GTG. Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:23, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Maury Markowitz, EEHalli, the hooks need tweaking because they contain links to the disambiguation pages First World War and Government Code and Cypher School, can one of you fix them? TSventon (talk) 16:41, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TSventon: seems to have been fixed already. Maury Markowitz (talk) 17:09, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you @TSventon: and @Maury Markowitz:. I normally do biogs for women in red so this was a different format for me. EEHalli (talk) 17:22, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: I strongly recommend ALT2, although perhaps with "initially" removed. Maury Markowitz (talk) 18:29, 16 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Happy with any version being adopted. It is important to be clear that Anderson was never shipped to join the other Hush WAACs in France but was sent to the London office instead. So long as that isn't lost, happy with the suggested amend. EEHalli (talk) 15:16, 2 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]