Talk:Nellie Breen
Latest comment: 23 days ago by Dclemens1971 in topic Did you know nomination
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 | A fact from Nellie Breen appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 June 2026 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
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Did you know nomination
edit- 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. Track your hook after promotion. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 (talk) 18:48, 27 May 2026 (UTC)
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Nellie Breen
- ... that Nellie Breen (pictured) is believed to have performed the first tap dance broadcast on radio in 1922?
- Source: *Fisher, James (2023). "Breen, Nellie". Historical Dictionary of Vaudeville. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781538113349.
She is believed to have performed the first tap dance on radio in 1922.
4meter4 (talk) 18:16, 14 May 2026 (UTC).
- Reviewing. Cielquiparle (talk) 19:24, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
New enough (meticulously expanded over the course of one day and submitted on the same day) and more than long enough (5504 characters)! Well sourced to several books, in addition to 35 newspaper articles. Tone is neutral and copyvio is unlikely based on style, although the hook is pretty much verbatim from the source. (Not ideal but perhaps there is no other way to say it.) The hook is definitely interesting and is verified by the source cited. Another possible issue with the hook is that "is believed to have" could be seen as a weasel word, but of course we prefer accuracy to bombastic "world's first" hooks that land at WP:ERRORS. The image is eye-catching even as a thumbnail, supports the hook and the story, is used in the article. and is public domain. The QPQ is done. Really the main thing that could be better is a slight re-wording of the hook if possible (to address the two points raised above), but probably not a deal breaker. It does the job and piques curiosity. Too bad audio hook doesn't seem to be an option. Cielquiparle (talk) 19:55, 15 May 2026 (UTC)
