Template:Did you know nominations/Pat Hawkins
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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 13:41, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Pat Hawkins
[edit]- ... that Pat Hawkins from Perth, Australia, set a women's world record by cycling 2,489 km (1,547 mi) in seven days in 1940?
Created/expanded by Chienlit (talk). Self nom at 22:42, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- I reviewed Mahmoud (horse) on 22 Feb, Chienlit Chienlit (talk) 23:06, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
Long enough, new enough, I found no copyvio (although I was able to find a second newspaper reporting the denial of her 1-year record). I think the biography section should be omitted, since it has almost no content and is sourced to an unreliable source. However, there is a biographical nugget in at least one of the cited news sources that might be worth adding: she missed the 7 weeks during her 1-year attempt because of injury, illness, and her mother's death. Also the statement that she was less than a year into her cycling career when she set her first record is in the lead paragraph but not in the body; it can be sourced from ref. 2. On the other hand, I cannot find in that reference the statement that Unthank sent her a congratulatory message? Otherwise the sourcing seems fine, and the hook is sourced, so no big criticisms there, nothing worth holding this up for, IMO. But I was unable to verify the quotation from Marion Stell's book online (I took a guess and changed "cheets" to "sheets" but left "recogonise" as a more plausible typo - so giving this the AGF tick. Yngvadottir (talk) 04:50, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
