Talk:Betty Jane Long

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A fact from Betty Jane Long appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 11 April 2021 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Betty Jane Long was Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives for less than a day?

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The result was: promoted by MeegsC (talk) 13:03, 6 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Betty Jane Long was the Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives for less than a day? Sources: Elected temporary speaker on November 9, 1966 [1]; new speaker elected in the afternoon of November 9, 1966 [2]
- ALT1:... that Betty Jane Long, who opposed the Equal Rights Amendment, chaired the Equal Rights Amendment subcommittee in the Mississippi House of Representatives? Sources: Opposed the ERA [3]; ERA subcommittee chair [4]

Reviewed: KCIX-TV

Created by DanCherek (talk). Self-nominated at 14:59, 25 March 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

If you're looking to further improve the article, her predecessor and successor could be added to the infobox, and a personal life section (maybe with husband, kids, non-political stuff) could be added (if you can find information for either of those). Not a problem if you can't. Earwig returned nothing, and I don't have any problems. Giving the tick with preference to ALT1, as that is mentioned in the lead and is a more shocking and counterintuitive fact at surface level. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 05:47, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]