Talk:Marguerite Littman

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:41, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

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• ... that American-British socialite and southern accent coach Marguerite Littman had gotten Princess Diana to donate her entire wardrobe for an HIV/AIDS charity auction that raised over $3 million in 1997? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/style/marguerite-littman-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/04/style/if-holly-golightly-had-grown-up.html

• ALT1: ... that American-British socialite and HIV/AIDS activist Marguerite Littman was the inspiration for the southern character Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's? Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/style/marguerite-littman-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/04/style/if-holly-golightly-had-grown-up.html

• Comment: Still under my 5 submission limit; so, do not have a QPQ as of yet for this submission. Will have one completed for a subsequent submission.

Created by Ktin (talk). Self-nominated at 06:54, 8 November 2020 (UTC).

• Comment. Please can I request a fellow editor to review this one. Thanks. Ktin (talk) 20:31, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

• Hi, do I qualify?
• Here is a review: New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. I added a "citation needed" tag to the beginning of one very long paragraph where the source would be welcome, and I also tagged the lead as being too short per WP:LEAD; please add more to summarize the article and indicate her notability.
• I've struck ALT0 because it contains way too many facts, but ALT1 is great. ALT1 hook ref verified and cited inline.
• Can you find an image? No QPQ needed for nominator with less than 5 DYK credits. Yoninah (talk) 00:50, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

• Yoninah, Thanks so much for the review. I was hoping to use the Princess Diana bit since it has more of a global appeal rather than the second one. Happy to work on trimming ALT0 blurb.

ALT2: ... that American-British socialite and HIV/AIDS activist Marguerite Littman had gotten Princess Diana to donate her entire wardrobe for a charity auction that raised over $3 million in 1997?

I expanded the lede and have also added the citation for the first line in that longish paragraph. Unfortunately, could not find a free image that satisfies WP requirements when I had given it a search a couple of days ago.

Cheers and Thanks much! Ktin (talk) 01:07, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

• @Ktin: Thank you for expanding the lead and adding the cite. I added a fair-use image from 1987. You could go with ALT2, but it really is top-heavy on the descriptions of Littman and also uses the rather unencyclopedic word gotten. How would you like to shorten it further? Yoninah (talk) 16:57, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

• @Yoninah:. Thanks for that image upload. Looks clean! Re: the hook, took a pass at trimming it further. Please see below as ALT3. Cheers. Ktin (talk) 17:15, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

ALT3: ... that HIV/AIDS activist Marguerite Littman had Princess Diana donate her entire wardrobe for a charity auction that raised over $3 million in 1997?

• @Ktin: but the source says it was Diana's idea to donate her clothes. If Littman ran the auction, you could say:
• ALT4: ... that Princess Diana donated her entire wardrobe to a charity auction organized by HIV/AIDS activist Marguerite Littman which raised more than $3 million in 1997? Yoninah (talk) 17:29, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

• Thanks Yoninah. Looks good. Let's go with this. Ktin (talk) 17:35, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

• OK. Approving ALT4 as it's just a rewording of your ALT2. Good to go. Yoninah (talk) 17:40, 16 November 2020 (UTC)