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:::*first, there are 4 source in the article all saying the same, but if they are deemed too "old", this one [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13783147/the_oshkosh_northwestern/] is from 1985.
 
:::*first, there are 4 source in the article all saying the same, but if they are deemed too "old", this one [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13783147/the_oshkosh_northwestern/] is from 1985.
 
:::but second, and more important, please withdraw this DYK, thank you. [[User:Elisa.rolle|Elisa.rolle]] ([[User talk:Elisa.rolle|talk]]) 09:03, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
 
:::but second, and more important, please withdraw this DYK, thank you. [[User:Elisa.rolle|Elisa.rolle]] ([[User talk:Elisa.rolle|talk]]) 09:03, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
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:*[[File:Symbol delete vote.svg|16px]] Marking for closure at nominator's request. We have to be very careful with "first" claims. I agree that there are four citations all attesting the fact, but they are all local newspapers and I guess that they are echoing each other. For such a wide claim, you really need a national source, such as the one I gave above. Also, the term "judicial powers" is very imprecise. [[User:Cwmhiraeth|Cwmhiraeth]] ([[User talk:Cwmhiraeth|talk]]) 10:26, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
  
 
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Kate Pier

  • ... that Kate Pier was the first woman in the United States to be conferred with judicial powers? Source: "In 1893 she was appointed a circuit court commissioner for Milwaukee County. This was the first instance in the United States of judicial powers being conferred on a woman" ([1]) (in the article there are three other sources, some more recent)
    • ALT1:... that in 1891 Kate Pier and her three daughters, Kate, Harriet and Caroline, represented one half of the women lawyers in Wisconsin? Source: "In 1891 the remaining Pier daughters, Caroline and Harriet, joined the family law firm in Milwaukee. The four Pier women made up one-half of the women attorneys in Wisconsin at that time" ([2])

Created by Elisa.rolle (talk). Self-nominated at 20:19, 15 September 2017 (UTC).

  • Symbol confirmed.svg Everything seems good. Article length and age are good, no copyright issues, and everything is sourced well. The length is good, and the nominator had reviewed another article. I like the first hook better. RileyBugz会話投稿記録 21:18, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
  • first, there are 4 source in the article all saying the same, but if they are deemed too "old", this one [3] is from 1985.
but second, and more important, please withdraw this DYK, thank you. Elisa.rolle (talk) 09:03, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
  • Symbol delete vote.svg Marking for closure at nominator's request. We have to be very careful with "first" claims. I agree that there are four citations all attesting the fact, but they are all local newspapers and I guess that they are echoing each other. For such a wide claim, you really need a national source, such as the one I gave above. Also, the term "judicial powers" is very imprecise. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 10:26, 30 September 2017 (UTC)