Talk:Chili Williams

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A fact from Chili Williams appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 November 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that a photograph of Chili Williams, known as the "Polka Dot Girl" (pictured), was one of the "two most famous pin-up pictures" of World War II?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chili Williams.

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 16:08, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Chili Williams in polka-dot bikini

... that a photograph of Chili Williams (pictured), known as the "Polka Dot Girl", was one of the two most famous pin-up pictures of World War II?

Source: The Baltimore Sun (here): "Undoubtedly the two most famous pin-up pictures of the war (the war) were ... and the one of Chili Williams in a two-piece polka dot bating suit")

Minneapolis Star Tribune (here): "A Minneapolis native who became 'the Polka Dot Girl' of World War II pinups ..."

- Reviewed: Asian News International vs. Wikimedia Foundation

Created by Cbl62 (talk) and DaffodilOcean (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 376 past nominations.

Cbl62 (talk) 16:19, 11 October 2024 (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: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Jonathan Deamer (talk) 08:20, 12 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I want to note that this article currently has two ^{[citation needed]} templates, which should be resolved before promotion. JuniperChill (talk) 12:45, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well spotted, sorry I missed these. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 12:51, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Found sources and removed the citation needed tags. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 13:01, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good to go now JuniperChill (talk) 13:21, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]