Talk:Pig-faced women
Latest comment: 4 years ago by FunkMonk in topic Bio created for Gris
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Bio created for Gris
edit/* Griselda Steevens */ biography created - not sure if all the detail of her life needs to be here too but its an FA article so I will leave authors to consider. The new article currently uses stuff from here obviously with attribution. Victuallers (talk) 16:21, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
- Maybe not all the details, but the basic story needs to remain, as "well, there was one in Dublin before so it's obviously possible" is necessary background to why the 19th century PFW scare managed to convince so many people who should have known better. Besides, I'm reluctant to direct readers to Grizell Steevens, which is pretty much a how-to guide on how not to write a Wikipedia article, being basically a large chunk of this article copied-and-pasted verbatim. I'm inclined to AFD the biography, since she's notable only for a single thing which is "supposedly looked like a pig"; calling her "creator and part-benefactor of Dr Steevens' Hospital" is stretching the truth to the limit, since the creation of the hospital was the legacy of Dr Steevens and all she did was decide to accelerate the timescale of his will's execution, and I don't see how a separate bio serves any useful purpose to readers. ‑ Iridescent 17:28, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
- I know this is not a discussion forum, but it struck me (as a Danish speaker) that the most featured names in the article, Griselda Steevens and Tannakin Skinker, almost sound like word plays. "Gris" means pig in Danish (from which the archaic English term "grice" is derived"), and "skinke" means ham... Probably coincidences, but weird. FunkMonk (talk) 09:52, 10 September 2020 (UTC)