Talk:Mabel Freer

Did you know nomination

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 Bruxton (talk) 19:02, 14 January 2023 (UTC)

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• ... that Mabel Freer was deported from Australia because she couldn't speak Italian? Source: "in 1936 a young British woman was twice given a dictation test in Italian under s3(a) of the Immigration Act and, not passing it, was refused entry – which was the start of a long battle that ended in her disembarking at Sydney to a hero’s welcome" , p. 242
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Marjorie Lynch

Moved to mainspace by ITBF (talk). Self-nominated at 08:18, 6 January 2023 (UTC).

• Not sure exactly why this was submitted for January 5, when it was expanded (but not 5x), and not December 27, when it was created -- but I don't think that should count toward invalidating the DYK application, as it is in any case a new-enough article. Length, quality of prose check out; Earwig suggests close paraphrasing, but in fact this is a false positive about a small number of exact quotes from the sources. Hook is fascinating (it is what drew me to the article), and I was able to directly verify it from Martens. Images appear to use the correct licenses. QPQ done. Dahn (talk) 09:54, 6 January 2023 (UTC)

Who assumed responsibility for her two young children

From the lack of mention of them, I presume they were brought up by their father or another relative; it would be good for this to be included. Jontel (talk) 07:30, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

30067

30067 needs expalining. 90.201.31.64 (talk) 15:19, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

sexism

isn't the word sexism anachronistic as a description for the public's rejection of her treatment? Shoshin000 (talk) 09:35, 20 October 2025 (UTC)

No. Corundum Conundrum (CC) 23:04, 20 October 2025 (UTC)