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Mary A. Wray

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• ... that Mary A. Wray was the oldest living American actress at the time of her death in 1892? Source: The Oldest Actress Dead, Recent death: The Oldest Actress
  • ALT1: ... that Mary A. Wray, a celebrated American actress of the 19th century, was considered the oldest representative of the American stage at the time of her death in 1892? Source: A Woman of the Century
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Created by Xoak (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 12 past nominations.

X (talk) 05:20, 21 May 2024 (UTC).

• New enough, long enough, and neutral with all reliable sources. The hook is directly cited. I assume good faith on the book reference. I prefer the first hook. A QPQ is needed. SL93 (talk) 18:53, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

@SL93: QPQ done. Re AGF, you could also access them by Wikipedia Library repositories such as Newspapers.com and NewspaperArchive.com. But Google News archive in itself is freely accessible and reliable. And yes, let's go with ALT0. Regards. X (talk) 06:43, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Xoak I was only referring to the Moulton source, which I just now noticed I could have read from the external links section. This is now ready to go. SL93 (talk) 08:31, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

Looking back at this, this should be promoted without "celebrated". SL93 (talk) 15:48, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

• @Xoak and SL93: bearing in mind that the only sources we have for this superlative claim are 1892 obituaries, I don't think these hooks are viable—per WP:CONTEXTFACTS, I'd need to see a secondary source (preferably somewhat recent) make either of those claims, or a new hook entirely. Seeing as this has remained unpromoted for more than a month, I suspect my fellow promoters are of the same opinion. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 15:10, 27 June 2024 (UTC)

Or they could just say that, instead of doing the nonsensical thing of not saying anything to give the nominator a chance to fix the issue. SL93 (talk) 21:22, 27 June 2024 (UTC)