Template:Did you know nominations/Marie Collings

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The result was: promoted by Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 14:04, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

Marie Collings

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... that Marie Collings, a wealthy pirate's daughter, purchased an island and became its hereditary ruler but never visited it?

Reviewed: Djoewariah‎

5x expanded by Surtsicna (talk). Self nominated at 10:14, 14 January 2014 (UTC).

Interesting short article. New enough, with expansion commenced on 11 January 2014. The article is sufficiently referenced to various sources, mostly printed, although there is one online source cited, and the duplication detector doesn't show up any copyvio to that. I fixed one link to a dab page. QPQ done. The hook is correctly formatted and OK for length - I found it interesting and made me want to read the article to find out more. The hook is a combination of two facts in the article, both properly cited to offline sources - I was able to find both facts online however, so didn't need to AGF for the hook facts. However, the article is just short of a 5x expansion. Length immediately before expansion was 555 chars, current length 2,762. It only needs 13 more characters to make 5x, so should be fairly easy to improve and I'd then be happy to pass it for DYK. --Bcp67 (talk) 14:02, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Uh, this was a bit embarrassing :) I must have calculated it wrong. It should be alright now. Thanks for such a prompt review! Surtsicna (talk) 14:31, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Thank you - now 2830 chars, so OK for 5x expansion. Good to go. --Bcp67 (talk) 16:18, 14 January 2014 (UTC)