Template:Did you know nominations/Virginia Mae Brown

The following discussion 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 Gatoclass (talk) 16:49, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Virginia Mae Brown

(

• Back to T:TDYK
• Article history

)

• ... that Virginia Mae Brown was the first woman chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission since its inception in 1887?

• Reviewed: Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

Created by Doug Coldwell (talk). Self nominated at 14:01, 7 December 2013 (UTC).

• ALT1 - ... that Virginia Mae Brown was the first woman chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission since its inception in 1887, thereby being called the "'First Lady of Transportation"?
• ALT2 - ... that Virginia Mae Brown was the first woman chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission since its inception in 1887, therefore being referred to as the "First Lady of Transportation"?

Ran DYK check - OK. Ran Copyvio - OK. Consider ALT3 for hook. Continuing to review. Zeete (talk) 17:46, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

• ALT3 - ... that Virginia Mae Brown, the "'First Lady of Transportation", was the first woman chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission since its inception in 1887?

ALT3 sounds good to me.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 19:11, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Reference for hook checked OK. Parts of article tend towards lists, but plenty of description. Ready to go with ALT3. Zeete (talk) 20:37, 8 December 2013 (UTC)