Template:Did you know nominations/Pat Hawkins

Pat Hawkins
Created/expanded by Chienlit (talk). Self nom at 22:42, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
 * ... that Pat Hawkins from Perth, Australia, set a women's world record by cycling 2489 km in seven days in 1940?


 * I reviewed Mahmoud (horse) on 22 Feb, Chienlit Chienlit (talk) 23:06, 22 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Long enough, new enough, I found no copyvio (although I was able to find a second newspaper reporting the denial of her 1-year record). I think the biography section should be omitted, since it has almost no content and is sourced to an unreliable source. However, there is a biographical nugget in at least one of the cited news sources that might be worth adding: she missed the 7 weeks during her 1-year attempt because of injury, illness, and her mother's death. Also the statement that she was less than a year into her cycling career when she set her first record is in the lead paragraph but not in the body; it can be sourced from ref. 2. On the other hand, I cannot find in that reference the statement that Unthank sent her a congratulatory message? Otherwise the sourcing seems fine, and the hook is sourced, so no big criticisms there, nothing worth holding this up for, IMO. But I was unable to verify the quotation from Marion Stell's book online (I took a guess and changed "cheets" to "sheets" but left "recogonise" as a more plausible typo - so giving this the AGF tick. Yngvadottir (talk) 04:50, 28 February 2012 (UTC)


 * The Unthank message is a separate item on a whole page of the Sunday Times dedicated to Pat H. It is headlined Valda Unthank's Good Wishes. I will make it a separate ref. Many thanks  Chienlit (talk) 09:48, 28 February 2012 (UTC)