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Article milestones
DateProcessResult
July 4, 2021Good article nomineeListed
September 23, 2022Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on July 29, 2021.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that Gurl.com's initial content used drawings of women instead of photos to avoid concerns about body image?
Current status: Featured article

Did you know nomination

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk20:33, 26 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

  • ... that Gurl.com was created as a Master's Thesis project by three graduate students and provided non-mainstream content for teenage girls? Source: Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia (2007): The co-creators, Esther Drill, Rebecca Odes, and Heather McDonald, recognized that young girls respond to popular magazines about beauty, style, and pop culture, and they sought to create a girl-positive space for these concerns online with www.gURL.com, the product of a master's thesis project at New York University.
    • ALT1:... that the website Gurl.com also had a free website hosting service owned by Lycos called "Gurlpages"? Source: Sexual Teens, Sexual Media: Investigating Media's Influence on Adolescent Sexuality (2001): "gURLpages" (http://www.gurlpages.com), a web domain owned by the search engine Lycos and sponsored by dELIA'S clothing catalogue, contained a listing called "Browse gURLpages,", which yielded many helpful sites.
    • ALT2:... that Gurl.com's name is a wordplay on the acronym URL? Source: Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia (2007): The name "gURL" takes the idea of location on the Web (URL and feminizes it by playing a "g" in front of it.
    • ALT3:... that Gurl.com's initial content used drawings of women instead of photos to avoid concerns about body image? Source: The Cut (article): "Part of the directive was to not use photographs, because we wanted girls to be able to insert themselves and not compare themselves," Odes explains; in place of photos, gURL tended toward zine-inspired illustration.

Created by Lullabying (talk). Self-nominated at 04:28, 27 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
  • Cited: Yes - Offline/paywalled citation accepted in good faith
  • Interesting: Yes
QPQ: None required.
Overall: AGF on all hooks. Good to go. Hawkeye7 (discuss) 21:02, 25 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

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This review is transcluded from Talk:Gurl.com/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Tayi Arajakate (talk · contribs) 22:50, 2 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment

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  1. Comprehension:
  2. Criteria Notes Result
    (a) (prose) The prose is good. Pass Pass
    (b) (MoS) Follows the manual of style. Pass Pass
  3. Verifiability:
  4. Criteria Notes Result
    (a) (references) Inline citations are present. Pass Pass
    (b) (citations to reliable sources) Sources are mostly reliable. Pass Pass
    (c) (original research) No original research is present. Pass Pass
    (d) (copyvio and plagiarism) No flagrant copyright violation or plagiarism found. Pass Pass
  5. Comprehensiveness:
  6. Criteria Notes Result
    (a) (major aspects) Covers all major aspects in fair depth. Pass Pass
    (b) (focused) Addresses the topic directly without deviations. Pass Pass
  7. Neutrality:
  8. Notes Result
    No neutrality issues were found. Pass Pass
  9. Stability:
  10. Notes Result
    No edit warring or content disputes. Pass Pass
  11. Illustration:
  12. Criteria Notes Result
    (a) (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales) Tags and fair use rationales are appropiate. Pass Pass
    (b) (appropriate use with suitable captions) Captions and use of images are appropiate. Pass Pass

Comments

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Tayi Arajakate Talk 03:26, 3 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Much earlier iteration of article

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I'm here because this article was highlighted in the Signpost's featured content report. Since it's about a relatively old website, I was curious about when the article was started. It turns out that there's a very old iteration that was deleted through the proposed deletion process in 2007. As an admin I've restored its history at its deleted location, gURL.com, along with its talk page. Graham87 08:54, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]