Talk:Wendy Barnes

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 (talk) 13:43, 28 September 2026 (UTC)

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Wendy Barnes at her talk show, Time to Remember

• ... that Wendy Barnes (pictured) had to fill the airtime for 40 straight minutes on her live radio broadcast in Nairobi in October 1956, as her scheduled guest, Princess Margaret, was unwell and arrived late?

• Source: Wiltshire, Trea (1968-09-22). "A woman with a lifetime to remember...". The South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. p. 32.

• • ALT1: ... that Wendy Barnes (pictured) was a British overseas radio broadcaster whose career spanned from the 1940s to the 1970s, taking her to Singapore, Vietnam, Egypt, Malta, Cyprus, Kenya, and Hong Kong? Source: Wiltshire, Trea (1968-09-22). "A woman with a lifetime to remember...". The South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. p. 32.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Carola von Braun

Created by Clithering (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 6 past nominations.

Clithering (talk) 18:22, 17 August 2026 (UTC).

• The article was created on August 16 and nominated the following day, and is long enough. It is substantial, neutral in tone, and extensively cited. I found no obvious sourcing or presentability problems. The nominated image is used in the article and is identified on Commons as public domain under the Hong Kong government copyright provisions. QPQ has been completed. The original hook is interesting and within the 200 character limit, and the hook fact is cited directly in the article. However, the cited source (Wiltshire, p. 32), does not appear to be readily accessible online. Could the nominator please provide a scan, screenshot, quotation, or other accessible copy of the relevant passage so that I can verify the hook? Once that is available, I expect this should be ready to approve. Separately, I also noticed that this article appears to be a translation (or close translation), of the Chinese Wikipedia article 班絲, which was created by the same editor in May. English Wikipedia's translation guidance requires attribution to the source article in an edit summary. I don't see such attribution in the English article's creation history. Could you please add the appropriate translation attribution, and preferably {{Translated page}} to the talk page as well? Alekjds (talk) 20:36, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
  • Alekjds, thank you for your favourable review! Based on your comment, I have added the translation template to the talk page. As for the source of the hook, I am more than happy to append below an extract from the source. Should you have any other comments, please feel free to let me know. Cheers.--Clithering (talk) 16:21, 22 August 2026 (UTC)

    She remembers one rather agonising incident when she was making a live broadcast on an occasion when Princess Margaret attended a Government House garden party.
    NIGHTMARE
    "The Princess had not been well and arrived 40 minutes late. They were some of the worst 40 minutes of my life... something of a broadcaster's nightmare.
    "But I just kept on adlibbing desperately, and then, just to make it easier, it started to rain!"
    — Wiltshire, Trea (1968-09-22). "A woman with a lifetime to remember...". The South China Morning Post. Hong Kong. p. 32.

• Thanks, @Clithering: the supplied extract verifies the hook, and the translation attribution has now been added. All DYK criteria are met. Alekjds (talk) 06:43, 24 August 2026 (UTC)

Requested move 2 October 2026

Wendy Barnes → Wendy Dorothy OrchardWendy Dorothy Orchard – This is their current name, and the page is currently a redirect to this page. BSH🌸 (talk) - (she/her) 15:22, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

• Comment Do present-day reliable secondary sources use "Wendy Dorothy Orchard"? See WP:COMMONNAME and WP:NAMECHANGES. 162 etc. (talk) 15:53, 2 October 2026 (UTC)

  "Wendy Dorothy Orchard" appeared in her death notice and probate notice only. I recall that all the other published sources, including the two books that I've heavily cited, use "Wendy Barnes". Thank you. Clithering (talk) 08:06, 3 October 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose per WP:COMMONNAME. 162 etc. (talk) 17:06, 3 October 2026 (UTC)