Template:Did you know nominations/Nancy Cox-McCormack


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The result was: promoted by Allen3 talk 10:11, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Nancy Cox-McCormack

 * ... that sculptor Nancy Cox-McCormack (pictured) created the first portrait of Benito Mussolini after his rise to power in Italy?
 * Reviewed: Ploughing in the Nivernais
 * Comment: From ArtAndFeminism 2015 edit-a-thon; Suitable for Women's history month; an image of the sculpture mentioned is also available at File:Nancy Cox-McCormack 1925 Benito Mussolini.jpg

Created by Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk). Self nominated at 18:15, 3 March 2015 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Interesting woman, good sources. You don't need refs in the lead for facts sourced in the body. I delinked "Italy" in the hook. The image is fine but unfortunately showing more outfit than person in that format. How about the bust? Or a crop? The hook is fine and sourced, but I could imagine it to be even more interesting if it said how enthusiastic she was about him - and disillusioned later. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:59, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I've created a smaller image of her at File:Nancy M McCormack 1912 Cox Family in America DYKcrop.jpg but it's tiny -- using the bust would also be okay, but it starts to feel like the DYK is about him and not her. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 14:27, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * ALT1: ... that sculptor Nancy Cox-McCormack created the first portrait of Benito Mussolini after seeing him March on Rome?
 * I like the little one for stamp size! The article should of course keep the complete one.


 * ALT2: ... that Nancy Cox-McCormack (pictured) created the first bust of Benito Mussolini, impressed by seeing him march on Rome?
 * Question: was that the first portrait/bust of him ever? If not we have a problem. Can you get a bit of a quote of her own words in? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 14:46, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture (Yale, 1998) says "the first bust to be made of the new ruler". I've added a quote to support the alt below. Let's use the small version of her if possible.Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 18:21, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
 * ALT3: ... that Nancy Cox-McCormack (pictured) considered Mussolini a "creative force" and sculpted the first bust to be made of him after his march on Rome?


 * Thank you for tireless creative force, for this particular topic and art and feminism in general! I saw the source, but we didn't have "after" in ALT2, which changed the meaning. I think we can (or even should) drop "to be made", as too close to the source and not flowing easily.
 * ALT4: ... that Nancy Cox-McCormack (pictured) considered Mussolini a "creative force" and sculpted the first bust of him after his march on Rome?
 * Symbol confirmed.svg --Gerda Arendt (talk) 19:33, 6 March 2015 (UTC)