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A fact from Nora Houston appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 September 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that an anti-suffragist threw rocks at Nora Houston as she was giving a speech advocating for women's voting rights, and Houston kept one of the rocks for the rest of her life?
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.
The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:01, 6 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
... that an anti-suffragist threw rocks at Nora Houston(pictured) as she was giving a speech advocating for women's voting rights, and Houston kept one of the rocks until the day she died? Source: "Nora Houston (1883–1942)" ([1])
Reviewed: QPQ exempt
Created by ScoutHarris (talk). Self-nominated at 00:45, 22 August 2019 (UTC).[reply]
Overall: Moved from sandbox on August 21, nominated August 22, 2019; I made several minor edits to rephrase things I felt were closely phrased. Earwig still gives a high score due to a large number of names, which are not copyvios. This is the user's second DYK, so a QPQ is not required. I also suggest using the photograph (or perhaps a tighter crop). Another possible image might be her 1907 self-portrait if someone wants to add it to commons and the article. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 18:41, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I took a stab at the IPA pronunciation, but I am not very familiar/experienced with it, so it's possible that it isn't quite right. Her surname is pronounced HOW-stun, not like the city in Texas. I welcome anyone more familiar with IPA to look it over and correct me if I've erred. Elysia (Wiki Ed) (talk) 15:52, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I've restored the LGBT categories as there doesn't seem to be any controversy in the sources about her life partnership with Clark. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 23:14, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
It would be helpful that editors adding categories ensure that the article content reflects what the sources and categories indicate. This is required by WP:CATV, and WP:EGRS sets a standard that should be met when considering adding categories. (And any time supporting content is removed, then the categories become disconnected from what's actually in the article...) Elizium23 (talk) 23:50, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, seeing your followup edit I think I can understand the source of confusion. "Companion" is more or less the standard term in the literature (and popular press, discourse etc.) before it gets superseded by "partner"/"life partner"/"domestic partner" and later, of course, "wife" or "husband". –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 23:53, 7 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Is it unambiguous? Always has an LGBT connotation? Should it at least be wikilinked to domestic partner? How many ordinary readers will draw that connection without editorial interpretation? Have there been prior, broader discussions about this? Elizium23 (talk) 00:05, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I'm afraid I don't know about previous Wikipedia discussion on the matter, and I'm not a linguist so I don't really know the history of the term - my personal guess would be that it began as a euphemism, and then over time non-euphemistic usage declined to the point that "life partner" was now the established meaning of the word (in the same way of "confirmed bachelor" or indeed "gay"), but again, I couldn't say for sure. I just know that this seems to be a standard term to refer to the partners of people in history who are uncontroversially accepted as gay. As far as whether or not it always has this connotation, I suspect that context will usually help us rule out eg. Lady's companion in the same way that context will usually help us rule out law partners. –Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 00:10, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Moved from sandbox on August 21, nominated August 22, 2019; I made several minor edits to rephrase things I felt were closely phrased. Earwig still gives a high score due to a large number of names, which are not copyvios. This is the user's second DYK, so a QPQ is not required. I also suggest using the photograph (or perhaps a tighter crop). Another possible image might be her 1907 self-portrait if someone wants to add it to commons and the article. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 18:41, 25 August 2019 (UTC)