Template:Did you know nominations/Lila Shanley

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 The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 18:56, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

Lila Shanley

  • ... that stuntwoman Lila Finn, who had "jumped out of bombers, been chased by lions, clawed by tigers, and thrown overboard into icy ocean waters at night", performed injury-free into her seventies? Source: "But on the job, she has jumped out of bombers, been chased by lions, clawed by tigers, and thrown overboard into icy ocean waters at night." (Los Angeles Times); "One person who has those attributes and more is 72-year-old Lila Finn...who may be the oldest working stuntwoman in America. ... Another reason for Finn's remarkable injury-free career may be her conditioning program." (Chicago Tribune)
    • ALT1:... that stunt double Lila Finn, who handled all the swimming and diving scenes for Dorothy Lamour in The Hurricane, at one point dropped her sarong and was filmed diving into a lagoon in the nude? Source: "'My mother did all the swimming and diving for Dorothy Lamour in The Hurricane,' said Barry, 'but the producer and the director were concerned about the Hays Commission and its industry censorship guidelines, because in one scene, after she drops the sarong, they shot footage of her naked, diving into the lagoon.'" (Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story)

5x expanded by Yoninah (talk). Self-nominated at 19:13, 7 June 2020 (UTC).

  • Striking ALT1 because I'd actually like to highlight her career. Yoninah (talk) 16:10, 9 June 2020 (UTC)


General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
QPQ: Done.

Overall: Really interesting hook and article. Article is long enough, well-referenced and neutral. Checked for copyvio/paraphrasing with the help Earwig's Copyvio Detector, no issues found. QPQ done. Nominated in time. Good to go. BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 11:46, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Is it clear that she did this in films? Here is a tweak:
  • ALT1: ... that Hollywood stuntwoman Lila Finn, who "jumped out of bombers, [was] chased by lions, clawed by tigers, and thrown overboard into icy ocean waters at night", performed injury-free into her seventies? Yoninah (talk) 20:43, 18 June 2020 (UTC)