Talk:Mabel Clint

A fact from Mabel Clint appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 November 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that after having to leave her World War I posting in Greece upon contracting dysentery, Canadian nurse Mabel Clint later re-enlisted to serve out the war in England and France?

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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 97198 (talk) 02:47, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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~~... that Mabel Clint, a Canadian nurse who served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I in France, Belgium and Greece, was also a novelist who wrote a romance in 1902?~~
ALT1: ... that Mabel Clint, a nurse who served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I in France, Belgium and Greece, was also a writer who published two books about Quebec between 1902 and 1909?

Comment: Article created September 29, 2019

Created by LiteratureCompanion (talk). Self-nominated at 15:44, 4 October 2019 (UTC).[reply]

New enough and long enough article. The hook is just short enough to qualify. This is your first DYK, so no QPQ is necessary. I must assume good faith on part of the hook, as I think the Tennyson book source (which I can't see) contains the year for the novel. I think this is good to go. Raymie (t • c) 18:09, 4 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I came by to promote this and did some editing and linking on the article. I added a "citation needed" tag to a paragraph that has a few unsourced statements. I would like to suggest that the hook could be improved by saying she wrote under a man's pen name. Yoninah (talk) 23:56, 28 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I clarified the reference in the article. I am not sure that her writing under a male pen name is relevant. It was common practice for women writers of her time to use male pen names. LiteratureCompanion (talk) 02:47, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I've got a mea culpa. Further research about Clint reveals that the 1902 book she wrote was not a romance novel but a non-fiction book containing historical sketches about Quebec. The full title of the book is Under the king's bastion; a romance of Quebec, comprising many true and interesting historical sketches and descriptions of the customs and habits of the people of Quebec, ancient and modern. Some sources reference the book's title only as Under the king's bastion; a romance of Quebec - thus the confusion. She wrote a second non-fiction book in 1909. I have modified the hook to reflect this. LiteratureCompanion (talk) 16:33, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for clarifying that fact, LiteratureCompanion, but ALT1 doesn't seem so hooky anymore. Perhaps it's just too wordy. Yoninah (talk) 23:22, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Here's a different approach:
ALT2: ... that Canadian nurse Mabel Clint was forced to leave her World War I posting in Greece after contracting dysentery, but a year later re-enlisted to serve out the war in England and France? Yoninah (talk) 23:29, 29 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

OK, that will do. LiteratureCompanion (talk) 01:13, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Raymie, could you review ALT2 please? Yoninah (talk) 01:24, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Yoninah: Yes, ALT2 looks good. Sorry for not seeing this sooner. I added additional inline citations to one source to help bring citations closer to the hook fact. Raymie (t • c) 19:21, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]