Template:Did you know nominations/Kathy Bardswick


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The result was: promoted by sst  ✈  05:01, 12 January 2016 (UTC)

Kathy Bardswick

 * ... that Kathy Bardswick, president and CEO of The Co-operators Group, is one of only 12 female CEOs in the top 500 companies in Canada?


 * ALT1:... that Kathy Bardswick got her first job at The Co-operators Group when her mother applied for her and pretended she was Kathy when the company called back?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sodder children disappearance
 * Comment: Created for Women in Red – Women in Leadership

Created by Yoninah (talk). Self-nominated at 22:21, 28 December 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg New enough. Long enough. QPQ done. Earwig's Copyvio Detector returns "Violation Unlikely 27.0% confidence", and any identical phrases appeared to be straightforward facts. Spot checking with dup detector found no significant close paraphrasing issues, copyright violations or plagiarism. NPOV. All paras cited. I'd prefer not to see cites in the lead para, with those facts repeated and cited elsewhere. The second fact in the main hook is cited, but to a 2004 source! I think our readers will reasonably infer that the 12/500 statistic is contemporary. Is there a better source, and an up-to-date number? The article lead para mentions, "one of a handful of women at the helm of the top 100 companies in Canada".  Is it possible to get a precise number?  The ALT1 hook fact is cited and checks out. Nice article and both hooks are interesting! Edwardx (talk) 13:06, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * thanks for the review! I removed the cites from the lead. I agree that a 2004 fact is pretty outdated, and removed it from the article. I added another source from 2011 which specifies that she is one of 4 women CEOs of Canada's top 100 companies; that's the most recent statistic I can find. I also prefer using ALT1. Yoninah (talk) 21:04, 31 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thank you Yoninah. Agreed, I cannot find anything more recent than the 4/100 number (for comparison, the UK went recently went from 5 to 6/100). I like ALT1 too! Edwardx (talk) 14:00, 1 January 2016 (UTC)