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A fact from Lady Red Couture appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 August 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Lady Red Couture, known as "the largest live-singing drag queen", stood 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) in heels?
How should the subject be referred to on subsequent mentions? Some of the RS in the article opt for "Couture", while others opt for "Lady Red". I went with "Couture" for now, but this is yet another case of "Is that a surname?". Armadillopteryxtalk17:24, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Another Believer: That could work. I was also toying with the idea of referring to her as "Baines" throughout, since (unlike in most drag performer articles) the Career section doesn't take up an overwhelming majority of the article. Maybe beginning the Career section with something like: "As Lady Red Couture, Baines did XYZ." Not sure how I feel about that, though, since it does go against our general precedent of using the drag ID for work done in drag and the out-of-drag ID for info about the person in their private life. Armadillopteryxtalk19:16, 8 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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.
... that Lady Red Couture stood 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) in heels? Source: "A fixture in Los Angeles clubs who stood 7-foot-2 in heels, she also co-hosted the L.G.B.T.Q. talk show 'Hey Qween!'" ([1])
ALT1:... that Lady Red Couture was known as "the largest live-singing drag queen"? Source: "She worked at venues like Hamburger Mary's and developed a reputation for being the 'largest live-singing drag queen.'" ([2])
Other problems: - Both hooks are interesting, I just have some queries: ALT0 would "high heels" be better for "heels" or is that a US/British English thing? ALT1 could add "in Los Angeles"?
QPQ: Done.
Overall: These quotes could be rewritten: "acted in plays and played trombone and tuba in the marching band, performing in the Tournament of Roses Parade" and "she held a variety of jobs, including 'security diva' at Gym Sportsbar and 'budtender' at a MedMen cannabis dispensary" Mujinga (talk) 01:56, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hi Mujinga, and thanks for the review! For ALT0, I think "heels" by itself is more common, especially in the drag industry (e.g. "six-inch heels" [3] / "Louboutin heels" [4] / "Is she wearing heels?" [5]). I am not sure if this differs regionally (e.g. between the US/UK). Changing it to "high heels" would sound more formal/dated to me, but I'm not strictly opposed to it, if you feel strongly. As for ALT1, the source just says "the largest live-singing drag queen"; it doesn't contain any qualifiers like "in Los Angeles". I think it would be OR to add that without a source.
OK great, this is good to go. For heels (wow Louboutin) I think you are right, it's just me who would say high heels, thanks for explaining. For LA, the previous sentence says "Outside of Hey Qween, Lady Red was a LA staple" so I wouldn't say it would be OR to include but on reflection it's less hooky so better as it is. Cheers! Mujinga (talk) 12:22, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Nikkimaria: I read the template doc from your edit summary, and I see it says to not link countries, but it doesn't say anything about states specifically. I see you left Utah linked but not California; is there a good rule of thumb for this? Armadillopteryx00:27, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Both hooks are interesting, I just have some queries: ALT0 would "high heels" be better for "heels" or is that a US/British English thing? ALT1 could add "in Los Angeles"?
These quotes could be rewritten: "acted in plays and played trombone and tuba in the marching band, performing in the Tournament of Roses Parade" and "she held a variety of jobs, including 'security diva' at Gym Sportsbar and 'budtender' at a MedMen cannabis dispensary" Mujinga (talk) 01:56, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
OK great, this is good to go. For heels (wow Louboutin) I think you are right, it's just me who would say high heels, thanks for explaining. For LA, the previous sentence says "Outside of Hey Qween, Lady Red was a LA staple" so I wouldn't say it would be OR to include but on reflection it's less hooky so better as it is. Cheers! Mujinga (talk) 12:22, 10 August 2020 (UTC)