Talk:Giorgina Reid

Birth name

@Mxn: thanks for finding that - I wonder if {{Nee}} would be a better fit for it? Legoktm (talk) 04:40, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Probably. I was following the wording in the French article and its source (or the part of it I could access anyway). The French article also mentions she was married to Donald Reid, which would confirm that it's her maiden name, but I didn't see a source for that at a glance. Minh Nguyễn ^💬 04:51, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Ack and done. I also re-read the Newsaday source, which says she was born as Giorgina Anzulata too. Legoktm (talk) 06:25, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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 DimensionalFusion talk 10:59, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

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• ... that Giorgina Reid patented a technique for holding up banks? Source: Goldstein, Marilyn (October 10, 1984). "She Holds the Patent on Tenacity". Newsday. p. 19. (Available via newspapers.com with TWL)
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Queens Zoo
  • Comment: The hook is intended to be misleading/provoking, but I think it's appropriate given that she wrote a book titled How To Hold Up a Bank.

Created by Legoktm (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 9 past nominations.

Legoktm (talk) 06:38, 1 September 2024 (UTC).

• AGF on the source, hook seems fine; QPQ checks out, and article seems in decent enough shape. No evidence of copyvio. Looks good to here! Generalissima (talk) (it/she) 02:12, 4 September 2024 (UTC)

Date format

Hi @GiantSnowman, can you explain why you switched this article over to DMY dates? She's American, so MDY seems like the right choice. Legoktm (talk) 22:19, 29 September 2024 (UTC)

Misclick, apologies, thanks for raising it! GiantSnowman 17:30, 30 September 2024 (UTC)

"Twenty-six years ago she said it could be done. It's done"

@TSventon I wanted to follow up to your comment that this quote is misleading because the lighthouse did require further work. The quote is what was said about her during the bicentennial celebration, at which time I guess they did think the project was really done. Do you have any suggestions on how to make it less misleading? Legoktm (talk) 00:10, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

@Legoktm: thank you for the follow-up. I don't have any local knowledge, but a brief mention of the 2021 work would show that Reid did not permanently fix the problem. It is also interesting that Reid spent around $40,000 (probably others helped as well), while the recent work cost $44 million. It would be nice if there was recent coverage assessing Reid's work, but presumably you didn't find any.

Part of the reason I queried the omission of the later work is that @Qwirkle: tagged the paragraph on Reid at Montauk Point Light article {{dubious}} I don't doubt that local folklore thinks this an innovation, but terracing with native material goes back as far as we have records for (diff). It would be good to remove that tag, possibly after improving the wording there as well. TSventon (talk) 00:42, 1 October 2024 (UTC)