Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Shaylee Mansfield

Shaylee Mansfield

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/September 23, 2023 by Wehwalt (talk) 17:29, 5 August 2023 (UTC)



Shaylee Mansfield (born 2009) is an American actress and former YouTuber who is deaf. Mansfield was born in Burbank, California, and first gained recognition by making viral videos in which she tells Christmas stories in American Sign Language. In 2016, Mansfield appeared in an advertisement by Disney Parks, in which she met Minnie Mouse, who was learning sign language at Walt Disney World. The video quickly went viral and became one of Disney's most-watched advertisements. In 2019, Mansfield made her acting debut in Disney's Noelle. The following year, her request for automatic captioning on Instagram drew attention from several media publications and became popular on Twitter. She received further recognition for her roles in the films Feel the Beat (2020) and 13 Minutes (2021). In 2022, for her signed performance on the animated series Madagascar: A Little Wild, Mansfield was credited as a deaf actor alongside the voice actors.
 * Most recent similar article(s): Katrina Kaif, an actress, will be featured on 16 July
 * Main editors: Pamzeis
 * Promoted: June 27, 2022
 * Reasons for nomination: 23 Sep is the International Day of Sign Languages and Mansfield is deaf
 * Support as nominator. Pamzeis (talk) 14:05, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Hi Pam, gratz on this great article. "Mansfield possibly became the first deaf actor to be credited alongside voice actors" is cited to The Wrap, and I didn't see any mention of this there. More often than not, when I'm thinking about which sentences to trim to create blurbs, sentences that talk about what might or might not have happened are the first to go. Do you have any objection to shortening this to "Mansfield was credited as a deaf actor alongside the voice actors"? - Dank (push to talk) 22:54, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
 * No objection. I've gone ahead and edited the blurb per your suggestion. Let me know if there are any other changes needed. Pamzeis (talk) 09:44, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Thanks, looks good to me. - Dank (push to talk) 12:50, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:35, 23 July 2023 (UTC)