Talk:Victoria Siddall

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A fact from Victoria Siddall appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 October 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Victoria Siddall is the first woman to be appointed the director of the 168-year-old National Portrait Gallery in London?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Victoria Siddall.

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The result was: promoted by Nineteen Ninety-Four guy talk 14:46, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Victoria Siddall is the first woman appointed Director of the National Portrait Gallery, London, in its 168 year history?

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/aug/28/victoria-siddall-national-portrait-gallery-first-female-director

ALT1: ... that Victoria Siddall is the 13th Director of the National Portrait Gallery, the first woman in 168 years to be appointed the role? Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/aug/28/victoria-siddall-national-portrait-gallery-first-female-director
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Comment: I also submitted this for a News feature, but perhaps a DYK is more appropriate if the National Portrait Gallery isn't considered big enough for News? https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Wikipedia:In_the_news/Candidates#Victoria_Siddall

Created by Medievalfran (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

Medievalfran (talk) 15:24, 30 August 2024 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall:

Interesting hook and the article is properly cited and constructed. QPQ not needed. I made a couple of edits to the article, but they are very minor. Richard Nevell (talk) 21:05, 2 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]