Talk:Madam Ghurka
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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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by Lightburst talk 17:10, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
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- ... that Madam Ghurka who was a notorious fortune-teller, was awarded £1,000 in damages after being described as a notorious fortune-teller? Source: see the article, the the ADB and this newspaper
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Catalina Estrada
- Comment: If you find an error then feel free to fix it. There is an image but its not very hooky. If you can improve the hook or see a better one then please be bold.
Created by Victuallers (talk). Self-nominated at 09:06, 8 October 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Julia Gibson; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.
- Cited: Yes. Interesting: Yes (and also quite funny). Article age is fine. QPQ is done. Overall,
good to go. P.S., this is only my second review, so if I made a mistake please let me know. Di (they-them) (talk) 04:07, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
- @Victuallers and Di (they-them): The sources do not seem to support the part of the hook: "who was a notorious fortune-teller". Maybe you are refereing to her early life: "at 16 she was arrested for bomb throwing"? 1. Lightburst (talk) 20:05, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
- Fortune telling (an illegal activity) is in the first few words of the ref. I guess you could have been throwing bombs, sentenced to death, escaped from a Russian prison, stabbed, killed someone, been a secret agent, called a liar by a judge, give false witness that causes a man to be hanged, have a book written about your perjury .... and not be notorious ... but it would be a first. She herself confesses that Madame Ghurka is "well known". I think this passes the duck test. Victuallers (talk) 22:53, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
- @Victuallers: Thanks so much, that was my take as well, but now the admin who promotes to queue will know we had a talk about it. I will promote. Have a great week.
- Fortune telling (an illegal activity) is in the first few words of the ref. I guess you could have been throwing bombs, sentenced to death, escaped from a Russian prison, stabbed, killed someone, been a secret agent, called a liar by a judge, give false witness that causes a man to be hanged, have a book written about your perjury .... and not be notorious ... but it would be a first. She herself confesses that Madame Ghurka is "well known". I think this passes the duck test. Victuallers (talk) 22:53, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
- @Victuallers and Di (they-them): The sources do not seem to support the part of the hook: "who was a notorious fortune-teller". Maybe you are refereing to her early life: "at 16 she was arrested for bomb throwing"? 1. Lightburst (talk) 20:05, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
Per issues raised by myself and Fram, I've pulled this hook. Feel free to ping when the issues with prose and sourcing have been addressed. theleekycauldron (talk • she/her) 08:28, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
- RIP - please consider this withdrawn Victuallers (talk) 09:48, 17 October 2023 (UTC)