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The result was: promoted by Lightburst (talk15:50, 6 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Make-Do and Mend promotional advertisement, c. 1943. Imperial War Museum, Board of Trade.
Make-Do and Mend promotional advertisement, c. 1943. Imperial War Museum, Board of Trade.
  • ... that Make-Do and Mend cemented frugality through thrift as an important contribution to the war effort? Source: Summers, Julie (2015). Fashion on the Ration: Style in the Second World War (1st ed.). London: Profile Books LTD. pp. 130–131. ISBN 978 1 78125 326 7
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Created by Diary of a Dress Historian (talk). Self-nominated at 10:52, 29 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Make-Do and Mend; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Policy compliance:

Hook eligibility:

  • Cited: Yes
  • Interesting: Yes
  • Other problems: Yes
Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
QPQ: None required.

Overall: Nicely done! New enough [Article created on July 22, 2023] Long enough [3636 characters (548 words)], [plagiarismfree], picture is [clear and free ] RV (talk) 10:46, 30 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 12 August 2023

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The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Campaign moved to Make Do and Mend, band moved to Make Do and Mend (band). Clear consensus that the band is not the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the phrase "make do and mend", and a fairly strong consensus that the campaign's article should omit the hyphen. The main point of contention here is whether the campaign is the PRIMARYTOPIC, or whether there's WP:NOPRIMARY instead. Users showed that the two articles receive comparable pageviews, but many participants argued that the campaign had sufficient long-term significance to retain PRIMARYTOPIC status, leading to a consensus that the campaign should hold the primary title. (closed by non-admin page mover) ModernDayTrilobite (talkcontribs) 14:24, 21 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]


– Suggesting this per WP:COMMONNAME. While Shrimpton and Summers do use a hyphen, Howell and the rest of the sources do not. There is an American band called "make do and mend", but they were only formed in 2006 and this ngram shows clear preference for no hyphen even before that. A Google scholar search for the WWII campaign also shows a clear preference for no hyphen [1]. Make Do and Mend is possibly the primary topic, but I'll let y'all discuss that. :3 F4U (they/it) 17:57, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support move. Makes sense. (I came across the band a lot when I was searching on the campaign name.) I doubt there's a primary topic between the two, as these have two very different readerships. Each article could hatnote the other. Schazjmd (talk) 19:28, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Is Make Do and Mend the primary topic?
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Notes

  1. ^ This being a new article, most of the early views will be from the creator as Wikipedia duplicates viewcounts, as well as the result of the current DYK hook
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