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A fact from Lilias Margaret Frances, Countess Bathurst appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 29 May 2020 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Lady Bathurst, once described as "the most powerful woman in England, without exception other than royalty", lived in relative obscurity for the last four decades of her life?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2020/May. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lady Bathurst.

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Did you know nomination[edit]

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:16, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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... ...that Lady Bathurst, once described as "the most powerful woman in England, without exception other than royalty", lived in relative obscurity in the last four decades of her life? Source: [1], ODNB
- ALT1:... that Lady Bathurst was the only female owner of a major newspaper in the world when she owned The Morning Post from 1908 to 1924? Source: [2]

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Created by Eddie891 (talk). Self-nominated at 16:03, 23 May 2020 (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 eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: All points check out for both hooks, ready to go. I have a quibble about the page title, which does not really identify her, but I’m not sure it is a DYK issue. You might perhaps consider moving the page to Lilias Bathurst, Countess Bathurst, Lilias Borthwick, or Lilias Bathurst, Eddie891. Moonraker (talk) 02:34, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Moonraker, I moved to Lilias Margaret Frances, Countess Bathurst, as that seems to the most common identifying name, let me know what you think of that Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 14:24, 24 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Someone may come along and trim that a little, Eddie891, but it is fine by me. Ready to go. Moonraker (talk) 00:25, 25 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Price of The Times[edit]

Rather puzzled to see that Northcliffe "reduced the price of his newspapers to two cents". It was (and is) priced in British currency. I think in 1914 the price was reduced from 2d to 1d, but don't have a source to hand. DuncanHill (talk) 00:50, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

DuncanHill, Er... that's what the New York Times says, but perhaps it is converted to American currency for the sake of their readership. The NYT was still a rather local paper compared to how it is today. I'll look into what British/Canadian papers say on the matter Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 01:26, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I've clipped a Montreal paper here Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 01:31, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

this clipping suggests it was indeed a penny paper. Is that enough to change it, do you think? Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 01:36, 29 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]