Talk:Ruth L. Bennett

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 SL93 (talk) 08:18, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

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• ... that Ruth L. Bennett provided shelter for over 2,000 black women and girls who migrated North to Chester, Pennsylvania as part of the Great Migration? Source: By 1940 the Bennett House had sheltered more than 2,000 girls and young women and In Chester, there are two places named after her: the Ruth L. Bennett House and the Ruth L. Bennett Homes. The Ruth L. Bennett House is the original house where Bennett took in African Americans looking for shelter during the Great Migration.

Created by Dwkaminski (talk). Self-nominated at 17:53, 19 May 2022 (UTC).

• I do promote the article Women's shelter for expansion. So let me take this DYK for review. Thanks Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' (talk) 07:45, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

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: I am not clear on QPQ, is there easier way to check QPQs? The rest DYK seems good. Secondly Ruth L. Bennett seem to have died 75 yrs back so still her copyright free image not available?. As mentioned above, I took on to review this one since I do promote the article Women's shelter for expansion. Thanks and cheers. Bookku, 'Encyclopedias = expanding information & knowledge' (talk) 08:26, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

• @Bookku: Thanks for the review. I completed QPQ with my review of Template:Did you know nominations/Phil McGrane. I can't find a picture of her. There is a painting that comes up on google search but I'm not clear on usage rights. Dwkaminski (talk) 19:05, 20 May 2022 (UTC)

• Bookku Dwkaminski The article says "By 1940, the Bennett House had provided shelter for over 2,000 women and girls in need." and the source says "By 1940 the Bennett House had sheltered more than 2,000 girls and young women and there taught them the value of self-respect, decency, and independence." I don't see where "black" is mentioned. SL93 (talk) 18:43, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

• • SL93 Bookku Another reference in the article Documenting Oral Histories of Ruth L. Bennett contains the following "In Chester, there are two places named after her: the Ruth L. Bennett House and the Ruth L. Bennett Homes. The Ruth L. Bennett House is the original house where Bennett took in African Americans looking for shelter during the Great Migration." Dwkaminski (talk) 21:42, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
    • Dwkaminski That source should also be used for that sentence and "black" should be added to the article. SL93 (talk) 21:50, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
      • SL93 Done Dwkaminski (talk) 23:19, 12 June 2022 (UTC)
        • Dwkaminski I just took care of the first thing that I said needed to be done. SL93 (talk) 23:32, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

Age inconsistency

The article states she died at age 80, but the image description at the top says she was 81 when it was taken. Her date of birth and death is sourced and gives a date that would leave her 80 upon her death, however, the image also has a source in the file page that states that she was 81 at the time of the picture. I am very confused here. Lynch44 (talk) 16:09, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

This issue was raised today at #wikipedia-en-help. Editors can discuss here what they think should be done to reconcile the conflict between sources. Given the date of publication of the photo and the documented birth date, it seems possible that the photographer or reporter slipped in an extra year to her age, so we could propose to modify the caption to say "80" instead of "81". But maybe there is some undiscovered uncertainty about the birth date? — jmcgnh^{(talk) (contribs)} 01:46, 19 October 2025 (UTC)