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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:38, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

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Patsy Mink

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Patsy Mink
Patsy Mink

Source: https://history.house.gov/People/detail/18329 "In May 1994, Mink joined Representative Norman Mineta of California and other colleagues in forming the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus".

Also note per Eligibility Criteria1D, this article appeared OTD Sept 28, 2017, but as one of the links listed at the bottom, so that does not affect DYK eligibility.

Improved to Good Article status by SusunW (talk). Nominated by Maile66 (talk) at 00:31, 13 April 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: Good to go. KAVEBEAR (talk) 02:40, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

  • Hi, I came by to promote this for a lead hook, but is this the hookiest thing you can say about her? Yoninah (talk) 19:44, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
  • There are many things that can be said about this great lady. I didn't want to get into the stale old "first" of anything she accomplished as a woman, or an Asian woman, but there are many of those. I have an aversion to hooks that are, " ... did you know, that (insert name) was the first woman who ... " The reason I went with this hook, is because that Congressional caucus she helped form, (I thought, anyway) just flows right into what we are commemorating - the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
Maybe it would be in that regards like this: — Maile (talk) 20:00, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
.ALT1 ... that in May 1994, Patsy Mink was one of the co-founders of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
  • @Maile66: well, that isn't much different from the original hook. Since many of our readers will have no idea that it's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, maybe you could add a tad more description to either Mink or the Congressional caucus? Yoninah (talk) 20:03, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
  • I'll get back to you on this. A congressional caucus speaks for itself, I think. But maybe I should do one of those "first" things. — Maile (talk) 20:05, 26 April 2020 (UTC) @KAVEBEAR:, @SusunW: any great ideas? Remember, it has to have a citation in the article right after the hook fact. I think one of the things in this article that made me want to give her a standing ovation, was her successful residency legal challenge to take the bar exam in Hawaii. Or that other scenario women identify with, " ... that Patsy Mink studied for a law degree after medical schools denied her application based on her gender?" — Maile (talk) 20:14, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
  • @Maile66: I also want to avoid "first woman" hooks. Anything interesting you can say about her will make a good lead hook. Thanks, Yoninah (talk) 20:17, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
  • ALT2 ... that US Congresswoman Patsy Mink (pictured) studied law only after twelve medical schools rejected her applications, based on her gender and a deluge of applications from military war veterans?
Here's where it is in the article: "She began applying to medical schools, but none of the dozen schools to which she applied would accept her because she was a woman, especially as they were receiving large numbers of applications from returning veterans" and here's where it is in the source: (p 580) "In the spring of 1948 Patsy applied to more than a dozen medical schools, only to be rejected by all of them. Two factors working against her admission: (1) she was a woman, and at that time only two to three percent of an entering class were women; and (2) medical schools in that year were inundated with applications from returning war veterans." 1 Note: the source URL says it is a blog, but look carefully - it's actually a PDF file from the Summer 2003 Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal, uploaded on the University of Hawaii website. — Maile (talk) 20:45, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
  • Thank you. We need someone to review ALT2. Pinging KAVEBEAR who did the original review. Yoninah (talk) 20:54, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

for new hook.KAVEBEAR (talk) 06:30, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

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