Talk:Samuel Goldwyn Estate

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A fact from Samuel Goldwyn Estate appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 August 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that actress Katharine Hepburn thought the status of one's career could be determined by one's seating position at Samuel Goldwyn's table?

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The result was: promoted by The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 22:59, 31 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Katharine Hepburn

~~... that Samuel Goldwyn walked to work every day?~~ Source: "When Sam Goldwyn left home every morning, he walked briskly (weather permitting) down Laurel Lane to Sunset Boulevard, then east to the borderline between Beverly Hills and West Hollywood - a distance of about three miles" Carol Easton, The Search for Sam Goldwyn, pg. 155
- ALT1:... that actress Katharine Hepburn (pictured) thought the status of one's career could be determined by one's seating position at Samuel Goldwyn's table? Source: "You always knew where your career stood...by where you sat at the Goldwyn table" A. Scott Berg, Goldwyn: A Biography, pg. 256

Reviewed: Apollinaris Syncletica

Created by No Swan So Fine (talk). Self-nominated at 16:16, 13 July 2020 (UTC).[reply]

starting review Mujinga (talk) 17:58, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Mujinga (talk) 18:17, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I like ALT1 better since for ALT0 as stated in the article he didn't walk all the way to work and Samuel Goldwyn Estate → walked to work every day seems a bit of a stretch. ALT1 is hookier and raises the great possibility of adding a picture of Hepburn. I also liked the Lucille Ball artichoke story! Can you clarify please the page number? I could check the reference for Hepburn, it's good but googlebooks gives an ebook with no page numbers, here it says page 256, on the article it says page 247. Could also give her direct quote instead of paraphrasing since the two "one's" are slightly awkward, what do you think? Below some image suggestions. Mujinga (talk) 18:17, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
File:Katherine Hepburn, 1938.jpg
File:Katharine_hepburn_woman_of_the_year_cropped.jpg

Thanks - I've fixed the Kate ref, it's frustrating with Google Books and page numbers sometimes. There are so many more anecdotes I could have included! I've reproduced her quote as well. The Woman of the Year picture is more authoritative, I think. Thanks for your great suggestions. No Swan So Fine (talk) 10:12, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK cool, this is now ready to go except for the pic, if you do want to use a pic it needs to be in the article and then I can review it to check it is suitably licensed Mujinga (talk) 21:11, 20 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Mujinga: Done! No Swan So Fine (talk) 14:46, 23 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Image added in course of review, caption in article = Katharine Hepburn, a dinner party guest of the Goldwyns - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Katharine_hepburn_woman_of_the_year_cropped.jpg

@No Swan So Fine: Nice one, good to go! Mujinga (talk) 15:04, 24 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Added freely-licensed image, appears in article. Also identified Hepburn as an actress (for those who don't know). Yoninah (talk) 14:42, 26 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]