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Did you know... that when Abbey House Museum curator Violet Crowther wanted to add old-fashioned household objects or "bygones" to the collection, she advertised for a pair of bellows in the local newspaper?
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... that when curator Violet Crowther wanted to collect social history objects for Abbey House Museum she asked for donations through local newspapers? Source: 'From a Woman’s Notebook', Yorkshire Evening Post, 19 April 1934.
ALT1:... that when museum curator Violet Crowther wanted to add a pair of bellows to the collection at Abbey House Museum she advertised in the local newspaper? Source: 'From a Woman’s Notebook', Yorkshire Evening Post, 19 April 1934.
New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced. As most sources are offline, unable to check for close paraphrasing. The birth and death dates both need to be cited, or else removed. The hooks are interesting but a bit inaccurate; I suggest you word it as in the article and remove the repetition of "museum":
ALT2: ... that when Abbey House Museum curator Violet Crowther wanted to add household objects to the collection, she asked for donations through local newspapers?
Article looks good, alt2 sourced offline in article, and is moderately interesting. Perhaps it should mention that she wanted to add "bygone" (or a synonym) household objects specifically? Kingsif (talk) 10:40, 24 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
How about:
ALT2a: ... that when Abbey House Museum curator Violet Crowther wanted to add old-fashioned household objects to the collection, she asked for donations through local newspapers?
Thanks for these suggestions. 'old-fashioned' is better in a UK context. How about
ALT3'...wanted to add old-fashioned household objects or 'bygones' to the collection, she advertised for a pair of bellows in the local newspaper'? Leedsed (talk) 13:01, 24 December 2020
New enough, long enough, neutrally written, well referenced. As most sources are offline, unable to check for close paraphrasing. The birth and death dates both need to be cited, or else removed. The hooks are interesting but a bit inaccurate; I suggest you word it as in the article and remove the repetition of "museum":
Thank you for adding the birth and death cite. We need an independent reviewer to check ALT2. Pinging Kingsif for help here. Yoninah (talk) 01:08, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
I've formatted that last suggestions, either 2a or 3 should work. Kingsif (talk) 15:49, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
