Talk:Grace Banker

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Date	Process	Result
June 29, 2016	Good article nominee	Listed

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Grace Banker and her team of telephone operators reported for work wearing helmets and gas masks?

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GA Review[edit]

This review is transcluded from Talk:Grace Banker/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Sainsf (talk · contribs) 04:52, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

General

No copyvio/dablink/external link trouble

Lead

Should be at most a para long for an article of this length
- Removed some text and made it into a single paragraph
but she was not alive to receive this news. Maybe redundant as it is evident from the dates given at the start
- Corrected

Life

, and she selected Change to "; she selected"
- Done
Any clear reason behind her death?

^*Could not find any source for this

Awards

Subsequent to the war When exactly?

Date of issue of order of award given now with two references.

Thanks for the review. I have addressed all above issues. Please see if any more changes are to be made by me.Nvvchar. 06:42, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, I can promote this now. Sainsf (talk · contribs) 07:00, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for promoting the article to GA.Nvvchar. 07:27, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

More Information[edit]

Miss Grace Derby Banker was married, on 4 March 1922, to Eugene H. Paddock.

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4613158/the_new_york_times/

https://books.google.com/books?id=wM_mAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA305&lpg=PA305&dq=grace+derby+banker+paddock&source=bl&ots=UpCDvKjwXy&sig=nLM14321zvBR4jtGrOhzC6sW8Ac&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjY65KApLbbAhUL7YMKHcJAA4YQ6AEISTAK#v=onepage&q=grace%20derby%20banker%20paddock&f=false

Mr. and Mrs. Paddock had four children, Engene A Paddock, Arthur R Paddock, Stephen B Paddock, and a daughter.

https://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/New-York/Grace-B-Paddock_g2m2s

Grace Derby (Banker) Paddock died on 17 December 1960, of cancer, in Scarsdale, NY, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA.

https://www.geni.com/people/Chf-Operator-Grace-Paddock/6000000076745000322

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58391578

216.146.231.6 (talk) 01:21, 3 June 2018 (UTC) Dave[reply]