Template:Did you know nominations/Martha E. Sloan


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 00:58, 2 July 2015 (UTC)

Martha E. Sloan

 * ... that Martha E. Sloan was the first female president of the IEEE?


 * Reviewed: Leena Gade

Created by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 06:35, 16 June 2015 (UTC).

Article is new enough and long enough. Article is well referenced. Hook is correctly formatted. The lead is too short (one sentence before I broke it into two) and does not summarise the main points of the article. Do we know what the E. is for? Good to add that if we do. I detected no copyvios or close paraphrasing. Good to go once the lead is fixed.Philafrenzy (talk) 10:24, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok, lead expanded, including the meaning of the middle initial. —David Eppstein (talk) 16:08, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I was going to tick it but just before I do, what's going on with the different versions of her name at the top? Philafrenzy (talk) 17:36, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you're unaware of this, but in the US, it has historically been the custom for women to change their surnames to match their husband's names when they get married. That's what happened here. So we have the name she used professionally ("Martha E. Sloan", the name she was born with and graduated with ("Martha Ann Evans"), and an intermediate form that she used in her Ph.D. thesis ("Martha Ann Evans Sloan"). All are sourced. The infobox has fields for the commonly-used name of the subject and for the birth name of the subject, and both fields happen to be filled in. —David Eppstein (talk) 17:41, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg It's fine now. Philafrenzy (talk) 23:02, 16 June 2015 (UTC)