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A fact from Selling Mother's Milk appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 March 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Selling Mother's Milk is a book which discusses the 18th-century practice of some parents in France giving their children to wet nurses for a year or more?

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 19:19, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the author of Selling Mother's Milk: The Wet-Nursing Business in France, 1715–1914 thought how slow the population of France grew in the 1800s and the prevalence of wet nurses were related? Source: "But the impact of wet nursing on infant mortality is sufficiently clear for Sussman to argue that regional infant mortality rates are a reasonable proxy for statistics on the incidence of wet nursing. In turn, this suggests a significant connection between wet nursing and France's slow population growth during the nineteenth century." - The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
ALT1:... that the author of Selling Mother's Milk: The Wet-Nursing Business in France, 1715–1914 thought that France's slow population growth in the 1800s was related to the prevalence of wet nurses?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Eight-ball jacket

Created by SL93 (talk). Self-nominated at 03:53, 11 February 2022 (UTC).[reply]

Comment I'm proposing ALT1 as an alternate wording. BuySomeApples (talk) 21:36, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

BuySomeApples I'm fine with ALT1. SL93 (talk) 22:28, 13 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I will review Bruxton (talk) 18:00, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Long enough, new enough, I added a non-free image of the cover and an infobox. Also a few other things. The QPQ is done, and the article is free opf copyright issues, and has inline citations. The article is neutral and interesting but I am not interested in the hooks. Maybe we can come up with a more succinct and interesting hook, and perhaps not use all of the very long title in the hook. Bruxton (talk) 18:56, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Bruxton ALT2: ... that prior to the 1982 book Selling Mother's Milk, literature on wet nursing was concerned with mothers caring about their newborns based on if they would breastfeed them? SL93 (talk) 20:20, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Or ALT3: ... that Selling Mother's Milk is a book about wet nursing and population growth? Source from article

ALT4: ... that Selling Mother's Milk is a book which discusses the 18th century practice of some parents in France giving their children to wet nurses for a year or more? Source from article

I am also fascinated by the high mortality rate - 1 in 3 chance (33%) of the children never returning to their parents due to poor care. An ALT could be fashioned for that as well. A worthy book, and a worthy article. I will let a reviewer choose but I like 3 and 4 if @SL93: is ok with them, if not I yield to the reviewer. Bruxton (talk) 21:43, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The reviewer can't approve their own hooks. Pinging Kavyansh.Singh to see if he can take a look. SL93 (talk) 21:50, 18 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Theleekycauldron: can you help us out here? Please! Bruxton (talk) 18:23, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Mortality angle is pretty good, but I couldn't work it into context in a punchy way. Regardless, I'll tick ALT4 (I made a tweak). cheers :) theleekycauldron (talk • contribs) (she/they) 22:04, 20 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Promoting ALT4 to Prep 1 – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 19:19, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]