A fact from Sandy Brown (ceramist) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 July 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the ceramicist Sandy Brown wanted her sculpture Earth Goddess to be "female and making an impact"?
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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.
Sandy Brown: I have removed several paragraphs of unreferenced content that you added below the footer. The edit looked like as if you were adding prose for later referencing to an article in draft space. Given that this is already in mainspace, this is inappropriate. With the unreferenced content removed, this is still a stub and DYK does not accept stubs. Feel free to expand this (soon as there is a time limit for new content) so that it meets eligibility criteria. Maybe have a read of the rules: WP:DYKRULES. I have only reviewed the bio and not the article for the sculpture.Schwede6623:11, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Earth Goddess: That article is new enough and long enough. Clear of copyvio, but... much of the article is made of direct quotations. The prose size of the article as of right now is 2891 bytes of readable prose. I've made a copy of that version in my sandbox and put all direct quotes into <blockquote></blockquote> templates; doing so leaves a readable prose of 1972 bytes. Hence, 919 bytes or 32% of the prose is direct quotations. There are no hard and fast rules as to how much text can be as direct quotes but I suggest that one third is way too much. Can I therefore suggest that you please dial back the amount of direct quotation in the article? Please say (here's good) when that's done and I shall take another look. This review is obviously not complete yet but without the issue being addressed, it couldn't run so I will review the remaining criteria once you've addressed this issue. Schwede6623:40, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I've struck ALT0 as the article about the sculpture has issues. I've created ALT1 and it differs from ALT0 in that I've shown the article link for the sculpture in italics (because it's a named sculpture) and not in bold font (i.e. effectively removing it from the nomination). Let that not stop you from fixing up that article, No Swan So Fine. The Brown bio is now long enough, neutral, suitably referenced. Now that the sculpture article has been removed, the hook fact will have to be copied across to the bio – this is the first outstanding issue. The hook is interesting enough. Earwig is happy. The second outstanding issue is that a QPQ is missing. If this gets promoted with a single article in bold, could the promoter please remove the DYK credit DYKmake|Earth Goddess (sculpture)|No Swan So Fine|subpage=Earth Goddess (sculpture) from this form? Schwede6602:40, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I have removed several paragraphs of unreferenced content that you added below the footer. The edit looked like as if you were adding prose for later referencing to an article in draft space. Given that this is already in mainspace, this is inappropriate. With the unreferenced content removed, this is still a stub and DYK does not accept stubs. Feel free to expand this (soon as there is a time limit for new content) so that it meets eligibility criteria. Maybe have a read of the rules: WP:DYKRULES. 
ALT1 is good to go. Schwede66 19:12, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
