Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Dean Emma M. Gillett
Dean Emma M. Gillett
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Washington College of Law
specifically to allow American women to become lawyers while established universities were refusing admission.- Reason
- A very nice photograph, and of a very notable person
- Articles in which this image appears
- Emma Gillett
- FP category for this image
- Wikipedia:Featured pictures/People/Others, unless a better suggestion is made.
- Creator
- Edmonston (photographer); restored by Adam Cuerden
- Support as nominator – FPs 22:23, 26 September 2019 (UTC)]
- Support. —David Eppstein (talk) 22:40, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
- One very minor quibble with the caption: "whilst" is British English. We should be using American English for her. —David Eppstein (talk) 21:23, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
- Is it? FPs 23:15, 27 September 2019 (UTC)]
- Wikipedia says so, so it must be true. (But in this case I think it's accurate.) "whilst [is] often considered archaic in American English" ... "The usage of whilst is chiefly British" ... "In American English, whilst is considered to be pretentious or archaic". —David Eppstein (talk) 07:33, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
- Fair enough. Done. FPs 04:27, 29 September 2019 (UTC)]
- Is it?
- Support Charlesjsharp (talk) 13:04, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
- Support. MER-C 16:53, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
- Support – --- Coffeeandcrumbs 04:19, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
Promoted File:Dean Emma M. Gillett 274015v.jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 22:47, 6 October 2019 (UTC)