Talk:Lilias Margaret Frances, Countess Bathurst
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Latest comment: 4 years ago by Eddie891 in topic Price of The Times
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 | A fact from Lilias Margaret Frances, Countess Bathurst appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- 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 Yoninah (talk) 22:16, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
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- ... ...that Lady Bathurst, once described as "the most powerful woman in England, without exception other than royalty", lived in relative obscurity in the last four decades of her life? Source: [1], ODNB
- ALT1:... that Lady Bathurst was the only female owner of a major newspaper in the world when she owned The Morning Post from 1908 to 1924? Source: [2]
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Created by Eddie891 (talk). Self-nominated at 16:03, 23 May 2020 (UTC).
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All points check out for both hooks, ready to go. I have a quibble about the page title, which does not really identify her, but I’m not sure it is a DYK issue. You might perhaps consider moving the page to Lilias Bathurst, Countess Bathurst, Lilias Borthwick, or Lilias Bathurst, Eddie891. Moonraker (talk) 02:34, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
- Moonraker, I moved to Lilias Margaret Frances, Countess Bathurst, as that seems to the most common identifying name, let me know what you think of that Eddie891 Talk Work 14:24, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
Someone may come along and trim that a little, Eddie891, but it is fine by me. Ready to go. Moonraker (talk) 00:25, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
- Moonraker, I moved to Lilias Margaret Frances, Countess Bathurst, as that seems to the most common identifying name, let me know what you think of that Eddie891 Talk Work 14:24, 24 May 2020 (UTC)
Price of The Times
editRather puzzled to see that Northcliffe "reduced the price of his newspapers to two cents". It was (and is) priced in British currency. I think in 1914 the price was reduced from 2d to 1d, but don't have a source to hand. DuncanHill (talk) 00:50, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
- DuncanHill, Er... that's what the New York Times says, but perhaps it is converted to American currency for the sake of their readership. The NYT was still a rather local paper compared to how it is today. I'll look into what British/Canadian papers say on the matter Eddie891 Talk Work 01:26, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
- I've clipped a Montreal paper here Eddie891 Talk Work 01:31, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
- this clipping suggests it was indeed a penny paper. Is that enough to change it, do you think? Eddie891 Talk Work 01:36, 29 May 2020 (UTC)