Template:Did you know nominations/Liz Halliday
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The result was: promoted by BlueMoonset (talk) 15:20, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
Liz Halliday[edit]
- ... that Liz Halliday stated that her ambition was to be the first woman to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans and to make a spot on the United States Equestrian Team?
Created/expanded by ZappaOMati (talk). Self nom at 01:44, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
This is long enough and new enough. It's adequately referenced, although I noticed that some of the information, notably the hook fact, was sourced only to her own website when it's also present in other cited sources; I added a second source for the hook fact. The only fact I wonder about the source of is the "short hiatus" of 2 years; which source called it short? I checked about half the sources and found only one inconsequential close echo of wording. However, I am not sure the article fully covers the material. I found two facts in the references that don't appear in the article: that she was the first woman to be on a winning team in a 6-hour British GT race and that her 6 wins make her the winningest woman in ALMS history. Her Le Mans racing (as opposed to media commentary) seems to have been left out of the article prose. I suspect these might yield a more interesting hook, especially since her Olympic dream apparently ended with the fall at the 2004 trials. Alternatively, is there any new news - how did she do at this year's Olympic trials? Yngvadottir (talk) 17:04, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
Yup, now good to go :-) I still wonder what's happened to her Olympic dream; the article uses her name rather a lot; and I think the equestrian centre she owns should be an external link rather than an inline one. But it now covers her career well, in my judgement, and the sources I checked are well reflected and not copyvio'd. If you would like this to run during the Olympics, either move it into the holding section or ask BlueMoonset or LauraHale, who seem to be splitting the organising duties. Yngvadottir (talk) 04:27, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
