Template:Did you know nominations/Nancy Brown (columnist)

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The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 09:33, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Nancy Brown (columnist)

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... that advice columnist Nancy Brown crowdfunded the reforestation of a clearcut during the Great Depression? Source: "In 1929, The News began a campaign to reforest huge swaths of Northern Michigan that had been clear-cut by loggers. The News, in partnership with the state Department of Conservation, offered plots of 40 acres to be seeded with new pines for a $100 donation. A letter writer going by the name "Andy" proposed that Experience readers raise their own $100 to seed a plot. Readers raised enough money — in small sums, 10 cents here, a dollar there — to plant 14 plots, a total of 560 acres reclaimed. Each plot carried a sign that read: "These 40 acres planted in 1930 by the Experience Column in honor of Nancy Brown."
- ALT1: ... that advice columnist Nancy Brown crowdfunded the reforestation of a clearcut during the Great Depression? Source: "Over the course of the 1930s, they funded the reforestation of burned-out parts of the Michigan State Forests, dedicating 560 acres in honor of Nancy Brown." Newspaper Confessions: A History of Advice Columns in a Pre-Internet Age, p. 138.
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Emeliana Aiza

Created by Gobonobo (talk). Self-nominated at 22:51, 30 August 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Nancy Brown (columnist); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

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:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Gobonobo: Alright, the nomination looks mostly alright, as the criteria are satisfied and the QPQ review has been completed. My only doubt is about the source you've used, as it's an article from The Detroit News (the newspaper Brown worked for) and, as such, might not be considered as totally independent from the subject... Also, I think it could be useful to add a few pipe-links to the hook (at least for "clearcut" and "Great Depression"), as well as the year the campaign was started in. Still a good job, though! Oltrepier (talk) 10:45, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

@Oltrepier I've added wikilinks to the hook as you suggested. I think people generally know when the Great Depression was, so I didn't mention the year. I hesitated to use the Detroit News source at first as a non-independent source. As the level of detail there was far beyond the other sources I have access to, I decided it was better to include it. I think given that we're talking about a career that ended 80 years ago and an article that is otherwise a quality source, that we can safely use the source in the article for concrete facts without compromising our NPOV. I've added another source that verifies the reforestation project to the ALT1 hook and to the article. gobonobo ⁺ ^c 16:04, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Gobonobo Yeah, you're right: thank you for explaining your decision! I think ALT1 should be good to go now. Oltrepier (talk) 16:12, 1 September 2023 (UTC)