Talk:Alicia McCormack

Two deletions

 * Firstly: This is an encyclopedia. Being acknowledged by a prince with similar interests is nice, at the moment.  It might make a news story. But it is not an event of encyclopedia importance.  To be mentioned as the second sentence of someone's biography, that a member of the Royal Family once briefly acknowledged them is not appropriate.  It's like the song that was around in 1930 "I know a girl who knows a girl who danced with the Prince of Wales..."
 * On the other hand it is a good hook for a DYK, which is essentially "first page promotion" of your article and a "what's new" for Wikipedia.


 * Secondly: An extremely stupid bit of journalism had been used as a quote. It said that McCormack  "literally brought the prince to his knees..."
 * Bowing doesn't "bring a man to his knees".  Not unless he curtsied.  I don't supposed he was wearing a dress, so the chances are, he didn't curtsey.
 * People are brought to their knees in prayer, in fear, in grief and when they are proposing marriage, but not when they bow.
 * Well, more remarkable things have happened! One young Australian woman who met a prince at a sporting event is now his wife.
 * Are we to believe that Prince William proposed to Alicia McCormack? If he didn't, then he wasn't "brought to his knees."

Amandajm (talk) 01:32, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

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