Talk:Barbara Yancy

A fact from Barbara Yancy appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Barbara Yancy, who succeeded her husband in the Mississippi Senate after his death, later became an advocate for other widowed homemakers?

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 21:25, 10 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

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Barbara Yancy

... that Barbara Yancy (pictured), who succeeded her husband in the Mississippi Senate after his death, later became an advocate for other widowed homemakers? Source: [1]

Reviewed: Euphorbia abyssinica

Created by DanCherek (talk). Self-nominated at 20:04, 27 March 2021 (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: Epicgenius (talk) 20:53, 29 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Epicgenius: Thanks for reviewing this a few days ago! This image was just confirmed as PD through the OTRS process, would you mind reviewing it in case the promoter would like to use it? Thank you. DanCherek (talk) 22:03, 1 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

@DanCherek: No problem. The image is not used in the article right now, but it is freely licensed and clearly visible. If you would like to add it to the page, I can approve the image as well. Epicgenius (talk) 22:46, 1 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

Epicgenius, done — added to the infobox. Thanks, DanCherek (talk) 22:49, 1 April 2021 (UTC)Reply

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