On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Jeff Elder <jelder@wikimedia.org> wrote:

Hoping to get some things scheduled if anyone is around to eyeball these.  

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Did you know? The marriage of Thomas Thynne of Longleat may have helped to inspire Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. http://buff.ly/1LZzul5

LGTM. [though I'm going to go edit that article after this... there are a couple things bothering me about the wording and sourcing ;) ]

 

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Find out what happens when a journalist edits Wikipedia in a famous Argentine opera house. http://buff.ly/1LZBWrN

 

LGTM (on a side note it might be nice to link the author's newspaper in the signature area newspaper or his name to his articles in the paper/his twitter or something... seems weird to have it completely unlinked.)

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Elmer Stricklett is considered to have been the first baseball pitcher to master the spitball. http://buff.ly/1ZPFnW2

LGTM ( Yes, not everyone will know what a spitball is...  that's the point... I didn't but was now I do ... yes I now realize this is different then what I said yesterday about the 'open era' of tennis ... I would argue this is easier to find from the link then that was but ... for the record I'm thinking about my biases!)

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Valerie Bettis was the first modern dance choreographer to work with a major ballet company. http://buff.ly/1LZCWfr

LGTM 

 

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Florence Violet McKenzie, Australia's first female electrical engineer and a lifelong promoter for technical education for women, helped to introduce women into the Australian military and taught Morse code to thousands of sailors free of charge. http://buff.ly/1OD3hAs

"promoter for" or "Promoter of" ? It sounds better to me with 'of' but every single person in comms (and most on this list I imagine) is better at grammar then I am :). Otherwise LGTM

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