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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 Cwmhiraeth (talk05:25, 22 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Moved to mainspace by Mujinga (talk). Self-nominated at 09:13, 16 June 2020 (UTC).[reply]

  • Hi, I came by to promote this, but the article doesn't say anything about being one of the few female entrepreneurs trading in England, just one of the few female entrepreneurs before the Industrial Revolution. I added a cite to the Oxford Reference to verify the DYK hook, although I do not have access to that source; please check that it's there. Also, the article is an WP:ORPHAN; it needs to be linked in at least one other Wikipedia page so it won't get an orphan tag. Yoninah (talk) 22:46, 18 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks to Mujinga, I just added ODNB to my Wikipedia Library Card. Looking at the source, it says, she is also a rare example of a female capitalist from before the industrial revolution. I think you should follow this source more exactly, not calling her a "female entrepreneur", and not mentioning London. Yoninah (talk) 13:03, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Oh that's good you have ODNB access Yoninah! I'm still a fan of ALT1, I think it's pretty hooky. Nice one for the alts, ALT4 seems good although it feels slightly weird to have a direct quote from a dictionary but if everyone else is happy then I'm fine with it too. By definition female entrepreneur and female capitalist seem to be pretty much the same, I guess I prefer "entrepreneur" since Dant was living before capitalism as we know it. Mujinga (talk) 19:28, 21 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]