Template:Did you know nominations/Lois Galgay Reckitt

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:43, 24 March 2016 (UTC)

Lois Galgay Reckitt

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• ... that Lois Galgay Reckitt, a Portland, Maine human rights activist, LGBT activist, and domestic violence advocate, is listed in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975?

• ALT1: ... that Lois Galgay Reckitt lobbied for legal reforms to protect victims of domestic abuse and also organized memorial gatherings for those who had succumbed?
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Ana Irma Rivera Lassén
• Comment: Created for Women in Red's Art+Feminism editathon. Please run during Women's History Month.

Created by Yoninah (talk). Self-nominated at 19:29, 13 March 2016 (UTC).

• ALT2: ... that Lois Galgay Reckitt, a lesbian Maine human rights activist who has advocated for LGBT rights and against domestic violence, is listed in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975?

Avoiding euphemisms per MOS (can't remember which). George Ho (talk) 22:14, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

@George Ho: which euphemisms are you talking about? Why are you identifying her upfront as a lesbian? Yoninah (talk) 06:43, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

• ALT2b: ... that Lois Galgay Reckitt, a Maine human rights activist who has advocated for LGBT rights and against domestic violence, is listed in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975?

Probably I was wrong about the euphemism part. I added ALT2b without her sexual identity. George Ho (talk) 07:47, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. I like your ALT2b. Yoninah (talk) 13:14, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

Full review needed. Yoninah (talk) 22:05, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

Interesting bio, meticulously sourced, subscription sources accepted AGF. We all seem to like ALT2b best. unless you want to change the order (most readers will know what LGBT means, but we could first mention something they all will know) (I also feel that the years at the end don't improve the strength of the cause) to

ALT2c: ... that Lois Galgay Reckitt, a Maine human rights activist who has advocated against domestic violence and for LGBT rights, is listed in Feminists Who Changed America? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:50, 22 March 2016 (UTC)

Thank you, Gerda, I like your ALT2c suggestion even better. Yoninah (talk) 12:04, 22 March 2016 (UTC)