Template:Did you know nominations/When Megan Went Away


 * The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as |this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 17:54, 2 December 2018 (UTC)

When Megan Went Away

 * ... that the publisher of the first picture book with lesbian characters wanted to rename its characters Megan and Shannon, lest readers believe that "only women with Irish heritage were lesbians"? Source: First: "In 1979, Severance wrote and published the first children's picture storybook featuring lesbian characters. Titled When Megan Went Away..." (Davis p. 159). Editors changing: "And I remember that they [the publisher] wanted to change the names Megan and Shannon because they were afraid people would think only women with Irish heritage were lesbians." (Crisp, p. 94)
 * ALT1:... that When Megan Went Away (1979) was the first picture book to feature lesbian characters? Source: See Davis, above.
 * ALT2:... that while it is sometimes reported that Heather Has Two Mommies (1989) was the first picture book to feature lesbian characters, When Megan Went Away (1979) preceded it by a full decade? "Jane Severance's first picture book, When Megan Went Away (illustrated by Tea Schook and published in 1979), may be a straightforward story, but it remains significant in that it depicts a romantic relationship between two women and predates Lesléa Newman's Heather Has Two Mommies (1989), the text popularly considered to be the first picture book to depict lesbian women. [...] See, for example [of sources that report Heather as the first], Mintz (365) and product descriptions at websites like Bookshare.org" (Crisp, pp. 87, 95)
 * Reviewed: Kate McComb

Moved to mainspace by Bobamnertiopsis (talk). Self-nominated at 19:21, 25 October 2018 (UTC).


 * I am creating paragraphs in this review for readability:
 * THE PAGE: New enough (moved to mainspace and nominated on 25 October 2018; long enough; in policy (a variety of opinions and viewpoints are presented factually); inline citations are used (they are not required for the synopsis of the book); no copyvio detected (I used Earwig's Copyvio Detector and did spot checks on sources it couldn't see. I also added links to a couple of online sources.);
 * THE HOOKS: All three hooks are within acceptable length and supported by information in sources; they are also stated and properly cited in the article.
 * THE QPQ: By checking on the links I was able to confirm that Collin who did the Kate McComb review was in fact Bobamnertiopsis, but I will note that using different identifiers made that confusing. Since you didn't suggest an image for the DYK, there are no issues there.
 * I personally prefer ALT because even if you aren't interested in LGBTQ history or children's fiction, it should make you blink for a minute. I would prefer ALT or ALT2 to ALT1 on the grounds that "X was first" is less interesting.
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Good to go; A very nice article. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 18:05, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you for such a thorough review, ! Best, —Collint c 18:10, 29 October 2018 (UTC)